Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Maria Cradock was born in 1847 in New South Wales, Australia – the daughter of John Cradock and Esther Slater.
In 1857 her mother died and Annie appears to have come to New Zealand with her father in the early 1860s.
She lived at Wetherstones near Lawrence on the Otago Goldfields and she married William McNickle on 8 August 1865.
They had three children and lived in Lawrence where William worked as a storekeeper.
He was declared insolvent in 1870 and again in 1883 - sometime after this they moved to Dunedin where William worked as a carter and where Annie signed the suffrage petition.
About 1900 Annie and William moved to Levin where their son was living, Annie died there in March 1908.
Her obituary said 'her kindly manner and generous disposition spoke of a bright soul dwelling within. Desirous of befriending those who needed it most she left her all to charities.'
William died in 1914, they are buried together in the Old Levin Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
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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