Originally transcribed as Sissie G Ferens
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Catherine Jane Gilmore, known as Sissie, was born about 1860 in County, Down, Ireland.
She emigrated to Otago in 1883 on the Forfarshire with her brother John.
Catherine married William Henry Ferens, a mail clerk, on 15 October 1885 in Lyttleton, they settled in Dunedin and had five children.
When Catherine signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Rattray St, either with or near her sister Minnie. (See 55 M Gilmore)
In their later years they moved to Auckland where Catherine died on 17 July 1946.
William died in 1951, they are buried together in the Purewa Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Purewa Cemetery https://www.purewa.co.nz/
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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