Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Catherine/Kitty Davidson was born about 1854 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
She married William Gorman Morrison, a fruiterer, in Old Deer, Aberdeen in 1875.
They had four children before the family emigrated to New Zealand in the mid-1880s.
They settled in Oamaru before moving to Dunedin about six years later and had a further four children.
When Catherine signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Duncan St, North East Valley and William was working as a storeman.
Catherine died at their home on 18 February 1920 and William died in 1937, they are buried with one of their daughters in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
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
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
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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