suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Newman
Given names: 
Bessie
Given address: 
Bluff Harbour
Sheet No: 341
Town/Suburb: 
Bluff
City/Region: 
Southland
Notes: 

Originally transcribed as Bessie Recoman

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Bessie Palmer was born about 1860.

She married Henry George Newman, a fishmonger, on 15 September 1884 in St Saviour, Jersey, Channel Islands.

They came to New Zealand and had four children.

When Bessie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Bluff.

Henry died in 1898 and, in 1899, Bessie was charged with selling liquor without a licence at her oyster saloon.

She travelled to Australia and she married Axel Bobert, a mariner from Sweden, in 1900.

They returned to Bluff where their son was born before moving to Dunedin in 1910.

Axel died in Dunedin in 1910, he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Bessie returned to Bluff where she died on 29 April 1934, she is buried in the Bluff Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search

Family Search https://www.familysearch.org

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Invercargill City Council https://icc.govt.nz

BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au

Jerripedia http://search.jerripediabmd.net/

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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