Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Nicholas Jane/Jeanie Veitch was born about 1872 in Canada. Her Scottish parents Thomas Veitch, a mason, and Janet lived in Canada during part of the 1870s where Nicholas and her brother were born before they returned to Scotland about 1877.
The family emigrated to Otago in 1883 on the Nelson and they settled in Dunedin.
Nicholas married George Anderson Coxon, a blacksmith, in 1892 and when she signed the suffrage petition they were living in South Dunedin.
They had 10 children - the two youngest, twins Willie and Jackie died in infancy.
In 1908 the family moved to Invercargill when George received a promotion.
In the 1920s they moved to Whanganui where Nicholas died on 10 January 1948 and George died the following year.
They are buried together in the Aramoho Cemetery, Whanganui.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
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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