Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ellen/Helen Hopkinson was born in New Zealand in 1860 – the daughter of Charles Hopkinson and Isabella Grant.
When Ellen signed the suffrage petition she was living in Bradshaw St, South Dunedin with her mother and her sister Caroline, working as a machinist.
Ellen died in the Tokanui Psychiatric Hospital in Te Awamutu in 1938. She is buried in the Tokanui Hospital Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Tokanui Hospital Cemetery http://tokanuihospitalcemetery.weebly.com
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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