A. J. Harrington

Surname:

Harrington

Given names:

A. J.

Given address:

St Clair

Sheet No: 68

Town/Suburb:

St Clair

City/Region:

Dunedin

Notes:

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Hannah/Annie Jane Eason was born in 1858 in Victoria, Australia – the daughter of Thomas Eason, a wheelwright, and Jane Wheeler Martin. (See 67 Jane Eason)

The family came to Otago about 1863 and they settled in Dunedin.

Annie married George Harrington, a dairyman, on 9 November 1876 and they had eight children.

Soon after their marriage George was declared bankrupt - after this they bought the Co-operative Fruit Store in the Royal Arcade to supply 'a long-felt want to the citizens of Dunedin...a wholesale and retail dairy establishment where pure new milk can be obtained twice a day.'

The business was for sale in April 1883, George having purchased a farm. Very soon after this the premises were destroyed by fire, the stock being fully insured.

Later that year George was again declared bankrupt. He then worked as a cabman also providing donkey riding by arrangement 'a treat for the children'.

When Annie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in St Clair, Dunedin.

George died in 1909 – his burial place is unknown.

Annie re-married on 27 December 1911 to John Miller McIntyre, a widower with five children.

They lived, for a time, in Christchurch – Annie died on 26 August 1937 and she is buried in the Timaru Cemetery.

John died in 1941 in Ashburton, his burial place is unknown.