Originally transcribed as A M Tyrrell
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Emma Lydia Thomas was born on 24 July 1837 in London, England – the daughter of Edward Thomas, a painter, and Emma Ainsley.
She married Thomas Tyrrell, a baker, in 1857 and they had eight children before they emigrated to Otago on the Canterbury arriving in January 1880.
They settled in Dunedin and their last child was born in March 1880.
Thomas was declared insolvent in 1883 and when Emma signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Calton, North East Valley.
Thomas died in 1903 and Emma died at her daughter’s home in Dunedin on 21 September 1920, they are buried in the family grave 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
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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