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Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie was born about 1858 in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
She married John Anderson, a coal miner, in the 1870s and they had a son before they emigrated to Otago in 1879 on the Auckland accompanied by John’s extended family.
They had, at least, a further seven children and when Annie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Fairfield, near Dunedin.
John died in 1926 and Annie died at her home on 3 November 1931 – they are buried together in the Green Island Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
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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