J. Boag House Wife

Signed family name

Boag

Signed given name

Given address

Shag Point

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Town/Suburb

Shag Point

City/Region

Otago

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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Anonymous Posted: 24 May 2017

Julia Kenny Boag was born in Wellington in 1851 to John Kenny, a painter, and Mary O’Hara, who were New Zealand Company settlers from London.

Sometime after her father died in 1857, Julia moved to Dunedin where in 1869 at the Wesleyan Parsonage she married Robert Hamilton Boag, a coalminer. Witnesses were her sister and brother-in-law, Mary Kenny and Thomas Stickle. Their daughter Frances also signed the petition.

For the next 26 year Julia lived in the mining area around Shag Point, Otago. She had eight children but only four lived to adulthood. Then by 1898, Julia, Robert and two of the children had moved to Tokatea on the Coromandel where Robert was a senior miner.

In 1909, Robert died in Paeroa and the widowed Julia spent time with her children in Mackaytown, Waikato, and Dunedin until her death in 1922.

She is buried with her grandson at Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.

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