Person:Amelia Allen (2)

Born in Bushy Park, near Hampton Court, London. Emigrated to South Australia with her family in 1834. Married in 1845 the newly weds moved to Tasmania during the Governorship of Sir John Franklin, whose wife was the godmother to her oldest son. The family then moved to Adelaide where they lived at Mintaro. The family moved to Victoria in 1856 and then in 1860? came to New Zealand by the first trip of the S.S. Omeo, Captain J. McLean. She visited England once in 1886.

She was the life governor of the Benevolent Institution, one of hte founders and treasurer for years of the late Servants' Home and also the Female Refuge. She was a zealous supporter of the Girls High School - Her daughter having been it's first dux. She was also a working member of st Paul's Guild. Papers Past

In her later life she was a property developer. Papers PastAt the time of her death she was living in Dowling Street, Dunedin.

There was a Supreme Court case to decide certain questions arising on her will. Papers Past Papers Past

1. ↑ Deaths Otago Witness, Issue 2072, 9 November 1893, Page 27, in Papers Past. (New Zealand: National Library of New Zealand).

   http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18931109.2.72&srpos=2

2. ↑ Obituary, Otago Daily Times, Issue 9907, 28 November 1893, Page 6, in Papers Past. (New Zealand: National Library of New Zealand).

   http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18931128.2.65&srpos=12