suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Alexander
Given names: 
Annie M.
Given address: 
Enfield
Sheet No: 296
Town/Suburb: 
Enfield
City/Region: 
Otago
Notes: 

Originally transcribed as Annie W. Alexander

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Annie McFarlane Alexander was born in 1866 in New Zealand – the daughter of Andrew Alexander, a clerk, and Annie Mitchell.

She grew up in Dunedin and attended the Dunedin Normal School.

Annie was appointed to the positon of pupil teacher at Union St School in Dunedin in 1882.

When Annie signed the suffrage petition she was living in Enfield in North Otago working as a teacher at Tenearaki School.

She resigned her position in 1898 and she died at her mother’s home in Dunedin on 2 February 1909.

Annie is buried in the family grave in the Northern 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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