Ellen Maskrey (Dalton)
Ellen Maskrey (Dalton)
People Buried Here
People Listed
Epitaph
In Loving Memorn Of
BRIDGET DALTON
Born Kilkenny, Ireland
Died April 4, 1903,
Aged 80
R.I.P
Erected by her daughter E. M
Description
Bridget & daughter Ellen arrived in NZ on the 'Woodlark' in 1874. Julius Vogel described the conduct of the single women during the trip .. "drunken, dissipated and immoral. Some of the worst of the passengers were selected by a Mrs Howard at Waterford, and the conduct, both during the voyage and since their arrival here, of some of the single women, or rather married women who have left their husbands and come out to the Colony as single women, would lead to the inference that they must have been picked up off the streets without any regard to their habits and mode of life"
Bridget's husband, John Dalton, arrived later and they settled in Wanganui. However in 1883 he did a runner taking all Bridget's savings from the salmon tin with him.
Daughter Ellen (known as Cotter) married Stephen Maskrey in Wellington in 1894. Bridget went to live with them in 1902 and is where she died.
Ellen's past was no less colourful than her mothers .. https://catherineclarkeauthor.com/2020/07/30/granny-dalton-eccentric/