Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Minnie Green was born in 1871 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England – the daughter of Richard Green, a glover, and Harriett Gardner.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in the mid 1870s and they settled in Queenstown where Minnie signed the suffrage petition.
Minnie married John Haines, a carpenter, on 9 November 1898 at her parents’ home, One Mile, Queenstown – they had one daughter in 1902.
John worked as a carpenter and a fisherman, owing a 'small fleet of boats' which he eventually sold to the Mt Cook Co.
John died in 1941 and Minnie died on 15 July 1949, they are buried together in the Queenstown Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Queenstown Lakes District Council http://cemeteries.qldc.govt.nz/
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
