Biographical information provided by Fiona Oliver, Alexander Turnbull Library, for the He Tohu exhibition:
Alice Rene Qualtrough was the oldest of seven sisters (she had no brothers) and was raised on the family’s farms in the Waikato region. It was an isolated area, and the girls had to walk four miles to the schoolhouse at Kihikihi. With no boys in the family, Alice and her sisters did a lot of manual work on the farm. In February 1900 she married a local farmer, George McGhie, at her parent’s house, by then in Cambridge. Alice moved to Te Awamutu with her husband. She had three children, George, Bill and Jessie. Alice died on 8 April 1929 and was buried at Kihikihi.
It seems this might be the wrong Alice Qualtrough - refer to community contribution below.
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
Community contributions