Elizabeth (Gifford) Dodson (1862 - 1912)

Born 20 Jan 1862 in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand

Ancestors

Wife of Howard Henry Dodson — married 2 Feb 1885 in Spring Creek, Marlborough, New Zealand

Died 17 Oct 1912 at age 50 in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand

Biography

Elizabeth Gifford known as Bessie and Betsy, is the daughter of James Gifford and Belinda Lambert.

In 1885 she married Howard Dodson and had one child, a son Norman.^[1]

She became the proprietress of Dodson & Co, a well known brewing establishment in Nelson run by her husband's family.

In 1892, Bessie received a certificate from the Royal Humane Society of Australasia for the rescue of someone drowning.

Bessie became a widow in 1893 after Howard died in a boating accident.

Bessie Dodson never remarried and died in 1912, age 50 and is buried at Omaka cemetery, Blenheim, Marlborough

Marriage Notice^[2] Dodson — Gifford. — At Spring Creek on 2nd February by the Rev Arthur Hermon, Howard Henry, eldest son of Henry Dodson, Blenheim, to Bessie, fourth daughter of James Gifford, Spring Creek.

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #201657376

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-2Y3M BIRTH
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24K-9MPV MARRIAGE
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDR1-PJ1 PROBATE

• https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ Marlborough Express 17/10/1912, Pg 5 Personal, 04/02/1885, Pg 2 Marriage, 12/09/1892

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24K-QWZ1
2. ↑ MARLBOROUGH EXPRESS, VOLUME XXI, ISSUE 29, 4 FEBRUARY 1885

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