See also Caversham research databases
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Grant was born about 1845 - she married Donald Bremner on 16 December 1874 in Dunedin.
They had six children before Donald died in 1885 when their youngest child was three-years-old.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition she was living in Edwin St, Caversham.
Later that year her 15-year-old son Alexander died at the Dunedin Hospital, he is buried with his father in the Southern Cemetery.
Elizabeth died on 21 March 1929 in Wellington, she is buried in the Karori 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Wellington City Council https://wellington.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.
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