Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Hamilton Barnett was born in 1872 in Lawrence, Central Otago – the daughter of Thomas Barnett, a plumber and tinsmith and Ann Anderson Hamilton. (See 147 Mrs Barnett)
After her father’s death in 1890 the family moved to Dunedin and when Annie signed the suffrage petition they were living in Stafford St and she was working as a teacher.
Annie did not marry and pursued a career as a teacher.
She started working as a pupil teacher while in Lawrence later moving to Kensington School. She was then school mistress at Awamoko School followed by Highcliff and Caversham Schools in Dunedin. After this she shifted to the North Island working as sole teacher at Port Awanui then infant mistress at Dannevirke South before being recommended for appointment as head mistress of the Napier High School in 1910.
Annie died on 9 April 1950 in Dunedin, she was cremated.
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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