suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Deans
Given names: 
Mrs
Given address: 
Cumberland St
Sheet No: 51
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Elizabeth Mair Watson was born about 1855 in Scotland, she emigrated to Otago in the 1870s and married Charles Deans, a stableman and widower with four children in 1880.

Together they had a further six children and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Cumberland St, Dunedin.

Charles died in 1918 and, in 1923, Elizabeth married John Gregson, a labourer.

John died in 1929 and Elizabeth died on 7 October 1935, they are buried with Charles Deans and his first wife in the Northern Cemetery.

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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