Name from Lee Goleby in a message dated 2 July 2020. Lee is the great-granddaughter of Margaret Scanlan, who is the sister of our James Scanlan that married Ellen Jury (1881-1950).

Lee Goleby writes that wife Elizabeth, “followed her brothers to the goldfields in Victoria Australia…”.

In a later email dated 3 September 2020, Lee adds that wife Elizabeth, “followed her brothers to the goldfields in Victoria Australia where she may have met Patrick Scanlan. Elizabeth and Patrick married after each of them had moved to New Zealand”.

Lee in her earlier 2 July 2020 email went on to say, “Patrick Scanlan and his brother John had a shop in Dunedin. After the shop burnt down, Patrick and Elizabeth moved to Auckland, where they had another shop. When that was damaged by fire, they went to Fiji to manage a sugar plantation. After Patrick killed a man, they returned to New Zealand”.

Year and country of marriage from search on New Zealand BDM website in July 2020:
1866/7429. Bride: Elizabeth Campion. Groom: Patrick Scanlan

Full date of marriage of 20 May 1866 from further searching in July 2020 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

Year and place of birth, date and place of death, place of marriage, from Lee Goleby in an email dated 22 July 2020. Lee is the great granddaughter of Margaret Scanlan, which is the brother of our James Scanlan that married Ellen Jury (1881-1950).

A collection of newspaper articles relating to Patrick Scanlan may be found here:
https://nzolivers.com/articlesdocs/Patrick_Scanlan_Newspaper_Articles.pdf

The above may be of interest to Oliver descendants of Ellen (Nellie) Jury who was Patrick son’s wife. Nellie was the granddaughter of Mary Ann Oliver (1826-1908). The clippings were compiled by Lee Goleby in August 2020 and cover Patrick Scanlan’s life in Australia and New Zealand as decorator and colour merchant.