Also signed as 59 Isabella Bennett
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Bennet was born in 1866 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Bennet, a tailor, and Euphemia Lonnie. (See 59 E Bennet)
She did not marry when she signed the suffrage petition Isabella was living with her family in Leith St, Dunedin.
She continued to live with her parents until their deaths in 1903 and 1933.
Isabella died on 25 October 1937, she is 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
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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