Lizzie appears to have signed multiple sheets of the petition, including Sheet 141 and Sheet 49.
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley:
Lizzie Burrows was born about 1865 in New Zealand – the daughter of Henry Burrows and Elizabeth.
The Burrows family lived in Bannockburn and Arrowtown while Henry worked as a gold miner, before they came to Dunedin about 1885 where Henry worked as a shoemaker.
Lizzie must have felt very strongly about the suffrage petition as she signed it three times. Her sisters Ellen and Bertha also signed, along with their mother. At that time (1893) Lizzie was living at the family home in MacLaggan St working as a machinist. She did not marry, and at the end of her life was living with her sister Ellen in Carroll St, Dunedin.
She died on 31 July 1949 and is buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Hannah died on 14 April 1901. She is buried in the Southern Cemetery with her daughter and son-in-law.
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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