Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Dick Williamson was born on 12 May 1860 in Dalmellington, Ayrshire, Scotland – the daughter of Robert Williamson, an ironstone miner, and Isabella Patrick. (See 121 I Williamson) She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1864 on the Resolute and they settled in Dunedin.
Elizabeth married James Blackshaw Lochhead, a farmer, on 28 December 1880 in the Kaikorai parish in Dunedin.
They had one son and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition the family were living at Highcliff on the Otago Peninsula.
James died at their home in 1916 and Elizabeth later moved to Dunedin where she died on 18 September 1939.
They are buried with their son in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
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
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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