Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Hay Cross was born about 1859. She married William Clinkscales Allan, a railway guard, in 1881.
They had five children and, when she signed the suffrage petition, Jane was living with her family in Maitland St, Dunedin. The family moved around the country due to William’s job with the railways. They were living in Wellington when William died in 1909. Jane died in November 1912.
They are buried together in the Karori Cemetery, Wellington.
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/services
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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