suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Hitchcock
Given names: 
I.
Given address: 
George St
Sheet No: 56
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Isabella Hitchcock was born in 1867 in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk, England – the daughter of Clarke Duchesne Hitchcock, an agent to a tanner, & Sarah Fieldwick.

Isabella’s family emigrated to New Zealand about 1875 & settled in Dunedin.

She attended the “Normal School” in Dunedin &, in 1882, she was appointed as a pupil teacher at George St School.

In 1888 she became a fully qualified teacher, she also gained qualifications from the St Johns Ambulance Association.

On 5 March 5 1916 Isabella disappeared while going from her brother’s house in Dundas St, Dunedin to her sister’s house in the same street. A search was promptly carried out due to the fact that she had been recently discharged from a “mental hospital”.

Her body was discovered in the upper basin of the city reservoir.

Isabella is buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.

Sources :

DCC Cemetery Records: http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search

Free BDM: https://www.freebmd.org.uk

GRO England: https://www.gro.gov.uk

Otago Nominal Index: http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

PapersPast: 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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