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Also signed as 49 Mrs John Fleming
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alice Redman was born in 1870 at Munro’s Gully on the Otago Goldfields – the daughter of Thomas Redman, a blacksmith, and Sarah Ann Wilkinson.
She attended the Blue Spur School near Lawrence.
Alice married John Samson Fleming, a cheesemaker, in 1892 at the Salvation Army Fortress in Dunedin.
They had three children and when Alice signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Grange St, Dunedin.
Alice died in the Dunedin Hospital on 14 March 1920 and John died in 1925, they are buried together 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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