Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth McCutcheon Brown was born about 1840 in Wigtownshire, Scotland – the daughter of James Brown, a shoemaker, and Agnes McCutcheon.
She married John Samson, a baker, on 29 December 1865 in Glasgow and they had four children before they emigrated to New Zealand about 1874.
They settled in Dunedin and had a further five children.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Kensington, South Dunedin.
She died at her home on 15 October 1911. John died in 1916, they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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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