Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Mary Jenkins was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Perriam Jenkins, a mariner, and Elizabeth Melville Hay.
Elizabeth married Sinclair Peden, a grocer, in 1900, and they had three children.
Sinclair died of appendicitis in 1916 and Elizabeth died on 1 December 1951 at Cromwell. They are buried together 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
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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