Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Matilda Coster was born about 1846.
She married Robert Bolton, a paper worker, in 1881. They had a daughter about one month before their marriage.
When Matilda signed the suffrage petition, the family were living at Woodhaugh, Dunedin near the Woodhaugh paper mill.
Matilda died on 14 October 1901 and Robert died in 1911. They are buried together in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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
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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