Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Thirza Harriet Elizabeth Havill was born in 1862 in Torquay, Devonshire, England – the daughter of William Havill and Thirza Chilcott. She emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Corona with her widowed mother and three siblings.
She married George Scott, a clerk, in 1880 and they had nine children. They lived at first in Dunedin, then shifted to Wellington where Thirza died on 30 November 1927. George died in 1930. They were both cremated and their ashes are interred in the Karori 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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
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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