Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Helen Brown was born about 1841– she married James Grant in 14 September 1860 in Dunedin.
They had five children and when Helen signed the suffrage petition they were farming at Highcliff on the Otago Peninsula.
Helen died on 26 June 1927 at her son’s home in Waitara near New Plymouth, James had died sometime before.
She is buried in the Waitara 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/
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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