Possibly also signed as 137 Annie Fordyce and 157 A Fordyce
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Fordyce was born about 1832.
When she signed the suffrage petition she was living in Wairuna in South Otago.
She died in Dunedin Hospital on 25 April 1910 and is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
Ann may be the Ann Fordyce born about 1832 in Forgue, Aberdeenshire, Scotland – the daughter of Charles Fordyce, a weaver, and Isobel Adam.
She was a neighbour of the Roy and Murray (See 110 Grace Murray) families from Forgue who arrived in New Zealand in the early 1860s and settled in Wairuna.
Sources
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.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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