Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella McKenzie was born about 1836 in Scotland.
She emigrated to Otago on the Brechin Castle arriving in January 1864 and, on 3 February that year, she married John Campbell, a carpenter.
They had five children and when Isabella signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Gladstone Rd, North East Valley, Dunedin.
John died at their home in 1911 and Isabella died on 26 October 1919, they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay 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
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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