Hi Susan
I noticed this post on Ancestry. I was wondering if the Ellen Martin on your tree might be my great grandmother I’ve been trying to trace. Do you know if your Ellen went to New Zealand before 1900, and where she died? Ellen Martin gave birth to my grandmother, Doris Gwendoline Martin on March 5, 1900 in Wellington, New Zealand. Doris was adopted by James Doyle (1852-1926) and his wife Alice Brooks (1867-1954) in Wellington on May 19, 1900, and became Doris Gwendoline Martin Doyle.
In 1919 Doris married Albert Harold Hanlon (1890-1982), and in 1928 married Francis Eric Quinlivan (1899-1986). The adoption record only stated Doris’ birth mother as Ellen Martin, born in Philadelphia, USA, around 1876. There is also no record of Ellen's death in New Zealand, so I assume Ellen returned to the USA.
thanks very much,
David Hanlon
New Zealand