suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Pavitt
Given names: 
Alice Maud
Given address: 
Upper Riccarton
Sheet No: 226
Town/Suburb: 
Riccarton
City/Region: 
Christchurch
Notes: 

Biographical information provided for the He Tohu exhibition:

Alice Maude Pavitt was born in 1865, the eldest of nine children. She was born in Christchurch where her uncle was the architect Samuel Farr. Her father Edward had migrated to Canterbury as a child accidentally. Bound for Auckland, their ship The Monarch was damaged, and drifted in the Tasman Sea south of Stewart Island for a fortnight. By the time the ship made landfall in Akaroa, some passengers decided to stay there.

Alice’s family lived first in Akaroa, and then in Lyttelton. Before her marriage, Alice’s occupation was ‘lady’.

In 1898 Alice married Arthur Vivian White-Parsons, a gentleman and a chemist who went by Vivian. They had three children, Rita, Gordon and Edna.

After Alice’s husband died in 1945, she lived with her two daughters in Glenelg Spur in Lyttelton. She died in 1961 at the age of 96.

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

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Anonymous 11 year old

Posted: 02 Feb 2020

Alice Maud Pavitt was my great great aunt ,in fact I have stayed in her house