Originally transcribed as M.P. Acher
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Moriah Thomson was born in 1866 in Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter of William Thomson, a carpenter, and Moriah Cartmill.
She emigrated to Otago in 1876 on the Invercargill with her mother and two siblings, her father had presumably come earlier.
She married Frederick Pitcher, a bootmaker, in 1889 and they had three children.
When Moriah signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Great King St, Dunedin.
In the early 1900s the family moved to Auckland where Moriah died on 1 June 1925, Frederick died in 1932 and they are buried together in the Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Auckland Council http://www.aucklandcity.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.
Community contributions