Originally transcribed as Mrs G Hore
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jemima Grieve was born on 4 October 1857 in Edinburgh, Scotland – the daughter of Lilias Grieve.
She emigrated to Otago in 1876 on the Dunedin and she married Silas Hore, a miner, on 6 February 1879 at Ravensbourne, Dunedin.
They had seven children and when Jemima signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Blue Spur near Lawrence in Central Otago.
They moved to Wellington in the 1900s where Silas died in 1923.
Jemima died on 7 June 1940 at her daughter’s home in Wellington, she is buried with Silas in the Karori Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Wellington City Council https://wellington.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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