Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
Isabella was born around 1836 in Fermanagh, Ireland, daughter of William Corrigan and Maybella Johnston. In 1860, in Enniskillen, Ireland, she married William Foster. They had 8 children in Ireland.
Their oldest daughter Elizabeth immigrated to New Zealand with her new husband Robert Johnston in 1881. Isabella, William and their children soon followed.
Isabella died in 1919 and is buried in Auckland.
The next signature on the petition is her daughter Margaret, Mrs James Johnston.
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