suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Barker
Given names: 
Jeanie
Given address: 
Bluff Harbour
Sheet No: 341
Town/Suburb: 
Bluff
City/Region: 
Southland
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Jane/Jeanie McGregor Barker was born in 1869 in New Zealand – the daughter of William Barker, a contractor, and Elizabeth McGregor. (See 341 E Mc Barker)

When Jeanie signed the suffrage petition she was living with her parents in Bluff.

She married John Henderson Reed, a clerk and merchant, in 1894 and they had seven children.

The family moved to Gore in 1906 and six years later they shifted to Invercargill.

Jane died at her home in Invercargill on 7 November 1938 and John died in 1943 – they are buried in the family grave in the Invercargill Eastern Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Invercargill City Council https://icc.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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