Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Carr was born in 1868 in Dunedin – the daughter of William Carr, a whip maker, and Esther Garraway. (See 48 Esther Carr)
Jane married Edward Ferguson in 1889 and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her parents in Dowling St, Dunedin.
Edward disappears from the records soon after their marriage and, in 1897, Jane married Henry Waugh, a bootmaker. They had three children.
Henry died at their home in South Dunedin in 1912, he is buried in the Waugh family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Jane died on 28 August 1934, she is buried in the Carr family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
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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