Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Hannah Marshall was born about 1843 in Killinghall, Yorkshire – the daughter of Thomas Marshall, a stonemason, and Dorothy Longcaster.
She married William Henry Sarney, a smith and widower with four children, in 1868 in Sheffield and they had three daughters before the family emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Tweed.
Their youngest daughter died shortly after their arrival and a further three children were born in the following few years, one who died in early childhood.
When Hannah signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Cumberland St, Dunedin.
William died in 1894 and Hannah died at her home on 1 December 1924, they are buried in the family grave in the Southern 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
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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