suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Rainey
Given names: 
A. M.
Given address: 
Lincoln
Sheet No: 190
Town/Suburb: 
Lincoln
City/Region: 
Christchurch
Notes: 

Originally mistranscribed as 'G. M.' See community contribution below.

Biography contributed by Joyce Hislop

Ann Matilda (known as Annie Maud on early electoral rolls) was born on 26 August 1864, the second daughter of Robert and Mary (nee Wallace) RAINEY. She lived with her parents, who had been assisted emigrants from Ireland, on their farm at Lincoln, Canterbury. She never married and did not give an occupation on the electoral rolls, just stating she was a spinster.

She moved into Mather’s Road, Spreydon with her parents when her father retired from farming in 1908 and continued to live with her father after her mother’s death in 1914. Annie later moved to Hansons Road, Riccarton with her father and unmarried sisters around 1919.

Annie died on 13 November 1923 aged 58 years and is buried with her parents at the Sydenham Cemetery Christchurch.

Sources

  • BDMs
  • Electoral Rolls
  • Cemetery Records

Note: Annie is the daughter of Mary Wallace RAINEY (Page 190) and sister of Sarah Glasgow RAINEY (Page 190).

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.

Community contributions

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Joyce Hislop

Posted: 05 Jul 2019

I have looked again at this signature and think it should be A M RAINEY. There is an Annie Matilda in the Rainey family living at Lincoln but not a G M Rainey.