Elsie CANNELL [4505]

  General Notes:

(Image courtesy of C Cannell)

1871 NZ Birth /24358 Cannell Elsie, Sarah Annie, William
1951 NZ Death /21480 Sutcliffe Elsie 79y

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 133, 7 June 1871
Birth Notice:
Cannell. - June 3, at Richmond, the wife of the Rev. W. Cannell, Wesleyan Minister, of a daughter.

Feilding Star, 24 August 1895
Elsie Cannell
suffrage_petition
Surname: Cannell
Given names: Elsie
Given address: Hawera
Sheet No: 524
Town/Suburb: Hawera
City/Region: Taranaki
Notes:
Elsie CANNELL was born on 3 June 1871 at Richmond, Nelson. She was one of 14 or 15 children born to Rev. William Douglas CANNELL and Sarah Anne (Annie) née GEORGE. Elsie married Harry SUTCLIFFE: 'at the Wesleyan Church, Opunake, on Thursday, August 22nd, by the Rev. Wm. Cannell, father of the bride, Harry, youngest son of Captain Sutcliffe, Marton, to Elsie, third daughter of the Rev. Wm. Cannell, Opunake.'

Elsie and Harry SUTCLIFFE had five children. Harry became a Draper. He died at Marton in about 1940. Elsie died at Hamilton on 17 May 1951. Elsie and Harry SUTCLIFFE are buried together at the Anglican Cemetery, Marton, Rangitikei.

Biography contributed by Jan Powell

  Other Records

• 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition: List of signatures, 1893, Hawera, New Zealand. Annie Cannell; Elsie Cannell; Gertrude Cannell; Winifred Cannell.
(Image Archives New Zealand Wellington)

Elsie married Harry SUTCLIFFE [4506] [MRIN: 1480], son of Capt Joseph SUTCLIFFE [6825] and Betty HARRISON [14029], on 22 Aug 1895 in Opunake, New Zealand. (Harry SUTCLIFFE [4506] was born in 1864 in Brisbane, Qld, Australia and died on 18 Oct 1940 in Auckland, New Zealand.)

  Marriage Notes:

1895 NZ Marriage /1051 Elsie Cannell, Harry Sutcliffe

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 48, 24 August 1895
Marriage Notice:
Sutcliffe - Cannell - At the Wesleyan Church, Opunake, on Thursday, August 22nd, by the Rev. Wm. Cannell, father of the bride, Harry, youngest son of Captain Sutcliffe, Marton, to Elsie, third daughter of the Rev. Wm. Cannell, Opunake.