suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Rambaum
Given names: 
E.
Given address: 
Mandeville
Sheet No: 123
Town/Suburb: 
Mandeville
City/Region: 
Southland
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Dorothy Sophia Elizabeth Bade, known as Elizabeth was born about 1843 in Germany.

She married Frederick Krake, a tailor, in London in 1867 and they had three children, one who died in infancy.

In late 1872 the family emigrated to Otago on the Zealandia. They arrived in January 1873 and Frederick died in June the following year – he is buried in the Northern Cemetery.

Elizabeth re-married the following year to Wilhelm Rambaum, a railway surfaceman and later a farmer.

They had a son in 1882 and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition they were living in Mandeville, near Gore.

They both were granted naturalisation papers in 1917 – these were revoked the following year by gazette and they became 'enemy aliens'.

Elizabeth died at her home in Gore on 2 January 1919 & Wilhelm died in Dunedin in 1927 – they are buried together in the Gore 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

Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk

GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk

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

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

Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.

Community contributions

3 comments have been posted about E. Rambaum

What do you know?

Siegfried Rambaum

Posted: 10 Oct 2016

I finally figured the E ... Dorothy Sophia Elizabeth apparently went as "Eliza" with family and friends. Her grave marker is not made out for "Dorothy S" but for "Eliza". Would have remained baffled, had not her two Williams (her husband, and her son) been buried in the same grave.

admin

Posted: 16 Nov 2011

Hi Siegfried
What you see is all the information that appears on the original petition.
I have looked up a database of women on the 1893 electoral roll and there is only one 'Rambaum' so this may be her:
Rambaum, Dorothea Sophia Elizabeth, Mandeville, Domestic duties
Hope this helps.
Jamie Mackay

Siegfried Rambaum

Posted: 16 Nov 2011

Can you tell us more about the information on this page?
Not yet.
I gotta figure, who 'E. Rambaum' may be. I suspect, she would be the wife of William Rambaum. But then, the question still would be: Which one ?
Is there a way to come by to a full scan of the document ?
Curious in upstate New York
Siegfried Rambaum