Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Kate O’Connell was born about 1862 in Ireland, she emigrated to New Zealand and married William Thomas Waldren, a cab proprietor, in 1878.
They had seven children, two of who died in infancy.
The family lived, at first, in Timaru before moving to Dunedin.
When Kate signed the suffrage petition they were living in Church St, Roslyn.
Kate died on 18 July 1920 and William died in 1930, they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay 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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