Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Mary Montague was born in New Zealand in 1862 – the daughter of Thomas Montague and Sarah. (See 30 Mrs T Montague)
She married Daniel Buchanan, a carter, in 1878 and they had eight children.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition she was living in Brook St, Dunedin.
Daniel died in 1896 and she married Robert Renton Cameron, a shopkeeper, in 1902.
Elizabeth and Robert had a son in 1904.
The family moved to Palmerston, north of Dunedin, where they ran the Criterion Boarding House in the 1900s.
In 1913 Robert took over the licence for the Lake Wakatipu Hotel in Kingston. They stayed in Kingston until June 1916 then about 1921 took over the Occidental Private Hotel and Boarding House in Manse St, Dunedin. This later became the Windsor Boarding House which was sold about 1927.
Elizabeth died in Owaka, Southland on 16 July 1944 and Robert died in 1947, they are both buried in the Owaka 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
Clutha District Council https://www.cluthadc.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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