Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Euphemia Christie and her husband Thomas Christie, a railway porter, were living in Duncan St, South Dunedin when she signed the suffrage petition.
Thomas died at their home in 1911, he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
What happened to Euphemia after this is unclear, she does not appear in the Dunedin Cemetery records.
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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