Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alice Sarah Jane Ferguson was born in 1851 in Kensington, London – the daughter of Henry James Ferguson, a newsagent, and Sophia Coward.
She emigrated to Otago in 1887 on the Kaikoura and settled in Dunedin.
Alice did not marry and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in St Andrew Street.
She died on 2 June 1935 at her home and is buried in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
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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