Ellen Nera Rena (Anglem) Gilroy (abt. 1829 - 1926)

Born about 1829 in Stewart Island, Southland, New Zealand

Ancestors

Wife of Patrick Gilroy — married about Nov 1847 in Southland, New Zealand

Descendants

Died 15 Dec 1926 at about age 97 in Bluff, Southland, New Zealand

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Biography

Ellen Anglem was born in 1829, the firstborn child of Captain William Anglem and Te Anau. She married Captain Paddy Gilroy in or after November 1847^[1] and had been to Sydney several times in his vessels.^[2] Being the eldest in the family she and Paddy brought up some of her relatives, including hwe brother William after their father died in 1846.^[3]

Ellen Gilroy passed away on Wednesday, 15 December 1926.^[4] She was recalled as having an excellent memory, "exceptional ability", clear mind, and a "great gift of description", with the composer of her obituary noting it to be a great loss that her reminiscences of old whaling days had never been collected.^[2] She was buried on Friday, 17 December at plot 2 / 6, General, in Bluff Cemetery.^[5]

Research Notes

May or may not be the daughter named Helen – could be somebody else.^[1]

Marriage info previously 1843 in Southland, New Zealand. Replacing this.

Sources

Autosomal DNA

Paternal and maternal relationships are supported by an AncestryDNA test match between Stephanie Gilroy and Anglem, third cousins twice removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are William Andrew Anglem and Te Anau. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 3rd cousin 2x removed, based on sharing 19 cM across 1 segment; Confidence: 22%.

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Stevens, Kate (2008). 'Gathering Places': The Mixed Descent Families of Foveaux Strait and Rakiura/Stewart Island, 1824-1864 Page 106. Citing
   • James Herries Beattie, "The Southern Maori. Stray Papers. LIII-Acknowledgements," May 2"d 193 I, Otago Daily Times, Newspaper clippings album, number 7, 58-59, James Herries Beattie Papers (MS-582/A/7), HL;
   • Ruapuke Registers Vol. 4, 20 (Entry 9), HL;
   • Whakapapa and notes on Howell, Joss, West families, Wallace Early Settlers Museum (hereafter WESM);
   • Schedule of application for land for Half-Caste families in the Province of Otago 1853, Land Claims of South Island Half-Castes, Special File No. l 0 (MA 13 Box 19 12 [b] Part 2), ANZW;
   • OASES Database, OSM.
   • See also Frank Bullen, The Cruise of the Catchalot: Round the world after sperm whales (London: Smith, Elder, 1899).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Southland Times (16 Dec 1926). THE WHALING DAYS. Issue 20054, page 8.
3. ↑ Church, Ian. (abt. 1998) Thomson, Jane (ed.) Southern People: A Dictionary of Otago Southland Biography. Longacre Press, 9 Dowling Street, Dunedin, New Zealand in association with the Dunedin City Council. Page 10. Condensed National Library version: Anglem, William Andrew, 1800?-1846.
4. ↑ NZ BDM Index, Deaths. 1926. Ellen Gilroy. Date of birth/age at death: 96 years. Registration number: 1926/9804.
5. ↑ Cemetery result for ELLEN, GILROY. Invercargill City Council. Last accessed 29 Nov 2023.