Surname:
Stevenson
Given names:
Jeannie
Given address:
Gladstone
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
Jeannie Stevenson
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Jeannie McDonald Stevenson was the daughter of Robert & Margaret Grant, born in 1868 at Bannockburn Station, near Gladstone, Wairarapa.
She married Alexander Forbes Stevenson at Gladstone in 1889; they continued to live & work on her parents’ farm until Alexander was able to start clearing land in his own rights at Kaitawa, in the Tararua ranges near Pahiatua.
She had nine children; suffering the loss of her two elder sons in WW1, both killed in France.
She died in 1942 in Palmerston North, and is buried in Kelvin Grove Cemetary along with Alexander.
[BDM 1868/19247 Birth, BDM 1889/2936 Marriage & BDM 1942/22919 Death]
Jeannie Stephenson (nee Jane Elizabeth McDonald Grant) b 3 Sep- 1868 at Gladstone, Wairarapa. Died April 1942 at Palmerston North.
Married Alexander Stevenson.
Daughter of Margaret Grant who also signed the petition.
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