Also signed as 28 JL Beck
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jeannie Lyall Beck was born in New Zealand in 1872 – the daughter of Albert James Beck and Jane Hall Murray. Her younger sister, Mary Jane, also signed the petition.
Jeannie was gazetted as a registered nurse in Christchurch in 1902, and in 1905 was working as an assistant matron at Christchurch Hospital. She was gazetted as a midwife in 1916.
She served on the committee of the New Zealand Nurses Memorial Fund (for the financial relief of nurses in distress occasioned by sickness, old age, accident or other misfortune) for at least 15 years.
Jeanie died in Christchurch on 16 May 1953.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past 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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