Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alice Cecilia Millichamp was born about 1863 in New Zealand – the daughter of William Millichamp, a saw maker, and Rebecca Miller. (See 173 Rebecca Millichamp)
She married Thomas Porteous Farra, a tinsmith, in 1887 and they had four children.
When Alice signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Dowling St, Dunedin.
Thomas died at their home 'Ribbonwood' in Castle St in 1915 and Alice died on 30 July 1928, 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
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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