Biography contributed by Helen Edwards
Isabella Mary Arlidge is the daughter of Mary Sutherland Arlidge, née Allan, born in the Isle of Skye in 1838, and Frederick Jacob Arlidge, an English brickmaker, born in 1833 in Northampton. Frederick arrived in Wellington in 1855 aboard the Surge and made his way to Port Chalmers on the Star. They married in Port Chalmers in 1860, and in 1861 Frederick had a stint on the goldfields at Tuapeka. This may have provided the funds for the house and section in Great King Street which Frederick leased in December 1861, and where the Dunedin School of Medicine now stands. Isabella was born in Dunedin about 1868, the fourth of ten children born between 1862 and 1878. Her mother died at Port Chalmers on 9 February 1883, aged 44. The family moved to Clyde Street, Roslyn (later known as Oban Street) about 1887. Isabella left the family home after 1919. She died in Hokitika in 1955. Her sister, Annie Cecilia Arlidge, signed Sheet 94.
Main sources
ancestry.com
Births death & marriages online. Dept. of Internal Affairs
Electoral rolls on microfiche and ancestry.com
New Zealand burial locator. Electronic resource, Dunedin Public Library.
OASES. Toitu Otago Settlers’ Museum
Stone’s Otago and Southland commercial, municipal and general directory … Dunedin: Stone & Co., 1884-
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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