Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Hannah Newbold Barnett was born in 1870 in Lawrence, Central Otago – the daughter of Thomas Barnett, a plumber and tinsmith and Ann Anderson Hamilton. (See 147 Mrs Barnett)
After her father’s death in 1890 the family moved to Dunedin and when Hannah signed the suffrage petition they were living in Stafford St and she was working as a dressmaker.
Hannah married Edward Robert Simpson, a dredgeman, on 29 July 1903, they had no children and lived in Cromwell.
Edward died in Manilla in the Philippines, where he was working, in 1912.
Hannah settled in Dunedin where she died on 17 October 1936, she is buried in the Barnett family grave 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
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/
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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