In 1851 Johnson V. Ellery, aged 19, born in Camborne Cornwall, lead miner, was with his parents in Barn Street, Liskeard, Cornwall.
On 11 May 1859, Johnson V. Ellery, aged 28, arrived in New York aboard the vessel S. S. Dreadnought.
In the 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Johnson Ellery, aged 30, born in England, miner, was boarding with Hugh & Elizabeth Kenney in Warren, Grafton, New Hampshire.
Not with his family at the time of the 1861 UK Census.
According to the 1871 and 1881 UK censuses, Jane Ann Ellery was a widow. However, she is shown as 'wife' and married in 1891. Johnson does not appear in the US Federal censuses after 1860. The evidence indicates that he travelled to New Zealand where he continued working in the mining industry* and where he subsequently spent the remainder of his life.
* Per several articles relating to the Bulmer Creek Gold Mining Company written by Johnson V. Ellery which appeared in New Zealand Newspapers (primarily Evening Mail and Colonist) between August and December 1886.
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ELLERY.—September 1st, at the Hospital, Nelson, Johnson Vivian Ellery, aged 62 years.
Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8343, 3 September 1895, p. 2
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