Also signed as 275 E M Prosser
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Euphemia Morrison McFadyen was born in 1859 in New Zealand - daughter of Hugh McFadyen, a cooper and clerk, and Hellen Hunter Morison.
She married Albert Ernest Prosser, a bootmaker, on 13 May 1881 in Dunedin and they had four children, one who died in infancy.
When Euphemia signed the suffrage petition the family were living in North St, Timaru.
She died at her home on 28 April 1894 and is buried with their daughter in the Timaru Cemetery.
Albert re-married in 1900 and had a further two children, he died in 1928 and is buried with his second wife in the Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Timaru District Council https://www.timaru.govt.nz/services
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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