Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sarah Cecilia Sutton was born in 1853 in Victoria, Australia – the daughter of Oliver Sutton, a joiner, and Sarah Taylor.
She came to Otago with her family arriving at Port Chalmers in July 1854 on the Clutha, the family settled in Dunedin.
Sarah’s father died in 1860 and she married Conrad Basan in 1877.
They lived, at first, in Port Chalmers and were to have nine children.
When Sarah signed the suffrage petition they were living in Brook St, Dunedin.
Conrad died in 1909 and Sarah died on 27 December 1933, they are buried together in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
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
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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