Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Julia Annabella Naumann was born in 1874 in New Zealand – the daughter of Frederick Gustave Henry Lewis Naumann and Annabella Macaulay. (See 32 Mrs Naumann)
When she signed the suffrage petition Julia was living with her family in Gordon St, Dunedin.
Before her marriage she worked in the Roslyn Woollen Mills in the hosiery department. Her fellow workers presented her with 'a handsome dinner service, also a pair of hand-painted vases, as a token of their respect' prior to her wedding.
She married Duncan Alexander Smeaton, a cabinet maker, on 26 December 1899 at the South Dunedin Presbyterian Church and they had two daughters.
In the 1910s the family moved to New South Wales, Australia where Duncan died in 1947.
Julia’s place and date of death is unknown.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
NSW Government https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
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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