Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Emily Ida Auld was born in New Zealand in 1865 – the daughter of John Maxwell Auld, a master mariner, and Jane Murrell.
When Emily signed the suffrage petition she gave her address as North East Valley although the electoral roll says she was a housemaid at the hospital in Great King St, Dunedin.
She married William Stewart McEwan, a veterinarian on 21 August 1895 in Dunedin and they had one daughter.
The family lived in Granity, north of Westport on the West Coast of the South Island.
Emily died in Auckland on 7 March 1946, she was cremated and her ashes buried in the Waikumete Cemetery.
William died in 1948 in Dunedin, he is buried in the Andersons Bay 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
Auckland Council https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/cemeteries
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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