Originally transcribed as J Breese
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isadorah Thomas was born in 1859 in Victoria, Australia – the daughter of Joseph Thomas and Sarah Baker.
She travelled to New Zealand about 1874 and married Thomas Breese, an engine driver, on 10 October 1878 in Dunedin.
They had six children and when Isadorah signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Macandrew Road, Dunedin.
Isadorah died on 7 March 1894 at the age of 34.
Three years later Thomas was declared bankrupt due to lack of work and having to employ a housekeeper to look after his young children.
Thomas died in 1908, he is buried with Isadorah and their daughter Beatrice 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
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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