Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Lucy Bovey Piller was born in Denbury, Devon, England in 1848 – the daughter of Thomas Lowe Piller, a farmer, and Elizabeth Bovey.
Lucy married George Edmund Bray, a railway station superintendent, in 1869.
They had seven children before the family emigrated to New Zealand in 1883 on the Ionic.
The family settled in Dunedin and had two more children - when Lucy signed the suffrage petition they were living in George St & George was working as a clerk.
They moved to Wellington in the 1900s where George died in 1925.
Lucy died the following year on 7 August, they are buried together in the Karori Cemetery, Wellington.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.nz
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Wellington City Council https://wellington.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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