Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ann Eliza Mckay was born about 1839 in Caithness, Scotland.
She arrived in Lyttleton in 1862 on the Matoaka. She had a daughter in New Zealand in 1864 before she married Charles French, a gardener, in 1865.
They had three children together before Charles died in 1873, when their youngest child was only three-years-old.
Ann and the children lived in Smith St, Caversham. Ann appears to have made a living from house rentals.
When she signed the suffrage petition Ann was living with her daughter Rebecca in Smith St.
She died on 4 July 1922 and is buried with Charles in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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
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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