Biographical information provided by Ian St George for the He Tohu exhibition:
Annie Paddle Strathallan Lochhead (nee Inglis) was born in 1864 on board the ship Strathallan as it was travelling from London to New Zealand. She was named Annie Paddle for the wife of the ship’s captain, who likely helped deliver her, and also after the ship itself.
Annie’s father managed a run at Waipukurau for Henry Russell and later worked as ploughman at Takapau. Annie married James McIlwraith Robertson Lochhead (he too had been born on the voyage to New Zealand - see the comment below) and they had eight children.
Annie was 29 when she signed the Women's Suffrage Petition. Her father had known Hawke’s Bay School Inspectors William Colenso and Henry Hill, so Annie probably would have known Emily Hill, the Napier suffrage leader.
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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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