Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sarah Celina Murphy was born about 1851 in Dublin, Ireland - she came to New Zealand in the 1870s.
Sarah had a daughter in 1876 who died the following year.
Sarah married Michael Clayton Creagh, a clerk on 12 August 1887 in Dunedin and they had six children.
When Sarah signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Duncan St although she signed at Elm Row nearby.
Michael died in 1895 – the following year the house Sarah was renting in South Dunedin was destroyed by a chimney fire, she was not insured.
The Benevolent Institute appealed for donations, clothing etc. to help her family.
Sarah died on 1 August 1923 at the Little Sisters of the Poor in Dunedin, she is buried with Michael in the Northern 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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