Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Tamar Hurrell was born in Essex, England in 1855 – the daughter of James Hurrell, a railway plate layer, and Rhoda King. (See 34 Mrs Hurrell)
She married William James Harley, a labourer, in 1874 and they had four children before they emigrated to Otago in 1882 on the Timaru.
They had a further nine children, one who died in infancy, and when Tamar signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Anderson Bay Rd, Dunedin and William was working as a carter.
In 1918 one of their sons was killed while fighting 'somewhere in France'.
William died in 1923 and Tamar died on 21 July 1928, they are buried together 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
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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