Maker: Carla Bentley

Panel number: 46

Petition Sheet Number: 35 

Person honouring: Ursula Irvine 

Relationship to makers: None 

Ursula Anderson was born on 18 March 1854 in Delting, Shetland Islands to Robert Anderson, a crofter, and Ursula Andrew. 

She married Laurence Irvine, a shepherd, on 6 August 1874 in Lerwick, Shetland. Later that year the couple emigrated to Otago on the Nelson.They had eleven children, one of whom died in infancy. The family lived in Caversham, Dunedin. 

Ursula died on 25 February 1906 at her home in Bradshaw St. Laurence died in 1931. They are buried in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.