Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sarah Coulling Sanders was born in 1855 in Whitstable, Kent, England – the daughter of John Langdon Sanders, a Wesleyan Minister and Sarah Coulling Shanks.
Sarah came to New Zealand about 1882 and, in 1883, she married Lewis Hudson, also a Wesleyan Minister.
They had four children and lived in many places around the country as Lewis changed parishes, even spending six years in Queensland, Australia from 1898 to 1904.
When Sarah signed the suffrage petition Lewis was in charge of the Mornington parish in Dunedin and the family were living in Bradshaw St, South Dunedin.
Lewis died at Mt Albert Auckland in 1922 and Sarah died in July 1926 at her daughter’s home in Herne Bay. They are both buried in the Waikumete Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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
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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