Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Annie Eliza Crowhurst was born in 1853 in Lincolnshire, England – the daughter of George Crowhurst, a railway labourer, and Mary Garlick.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1858 on the “Strathfieldsaye” and they settled in Dunedin.
Eliza married Edmund Sheffield Hill, a painter, on 4 April 1873 in Dunedin.
They had 10 children before Edmund died in the Dunedin Hospital in 1889.
When Eliza signed the suffrage petition she was living in Woodhaugh either with or near to her parents.
She later moved to Timaru where she died on 30 May 1929 – she is buried with Edmund and her parents in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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