Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Isabella Morrison Dobbie was born in 1868 in New Zealand – the daughter of Archibald Dobbie, a farmer, and Isabella Gillie.
She married Andrew Davis Anderson, a monumental mason, on 20 March 1889 in Dunedin.
They had 12 children and when Isabella signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Sunnydale, North East Valley.
In later life they moved to Invercargill where Andrew died in 1928 and Isabella died on 22 June 1950 – they are buried together in the Invercargill Eastern 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
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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