Originally transcribed as J. R. Inglis
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jessie Sarah Inglis was born in 1873 in New Zealand – the daughter of Alexander Inglis, an iron founder, and Euphemia Robertson.
Her mother died in 1876 and her father remarried the following year.
Jessie’s father died in 1887 and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her step-mother in St Clair, Dunedin.
Jessie married William Melville Kirkcaldy, an underwriter, on 22 February 1894 at her home 'Rookwood', St Clair – they had a son the following year.
The family lived in Dunedin until the mid 1910s when William retired.
After this Jessie and William 'spent most of their time in England and on the Continent, visiting New Zealand and Australia occasionally'.
Jessie was taken ill in Switzerland in 1933 – they travelled to London where Jessie died on 4 February – she was cremated at Golders Green.
William died in London in 1947.
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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