Originally transcribed as A Gibbs
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Alice McDonald was born about 1844 in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland – the daughter of Donald McDonald, a toll gate keeper, and Agnes Dickson.
Alice emigrated to New Zealand in the 1860’s accompanied by her mother and some siblings - her father may have died in New Zealand.
She married Henry Arthur Giller, a clerk, on 25 April 1877 at her mother’s home on Waikiwi near Invercargill.
They had three children and they were living in Dipton in Southland when Alice signed the suffrage petition.
They later moved to Invercargill where Alice died on 25 May 1900 – she is buried with her mother in the Invercargill Eastern Cemetery.
Henry re-married in 1903 – he died in 1929 and is buried in the Sydenham Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Invercargill City Council https://icc.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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