suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Campbell
Given names: 
Mrs T.
Given address: 
Burnside
Sheet No: 30
Town/Suburb: 
Burnside
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Janet/Jane Pitcairn was born on 29 January 1851 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland – the daughter of John Pitcairn, a mill tenter, and Ann Williamson.

She married Thomas Campbell, a coal miner, on 14 August 1874 at her parents’ home in Dunfermline and they had four children before they emigrated to Otago in 1883 on the Wellington. Two of Jane’s sisters had emigrated in 1879 on the Nelson. (See 30 Ann Pitcairn)

They had a further seven children after their arrival and when Jane signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Burnside, near Dunedin.

They celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary in August 1924 – Jane died shortly after on 29 October.

Thomas died in 1935 at their daughter’s home in Caversham, they are buried together in the family grave 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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