Best guess Mount Pleasant Lawrence (based on community contribution below)
Originally transcribed as R Pearson
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth and John had two children in Victoria after their marriage, their daughter died in 1862 at one year of age.
John left his family in Victoria in 1861 to travel to Otago but four months later he returned to bring his family to New Zealand.
The family settled at Wetherstones, near Lawrence, and John worked at mining and storekeeping and they had a further eight children.
They later bought land nearby and commenced farming at Mount Pleasant where they were living when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition.
John died suddenly at their home in 1903 and Elizabeth died at her daughter’s home in Dunedin on 13 December 1915, they are buried together in the Lawrence Cemetery.
Elizabeth’s obituary said 'she was a very shrewd and capable business woman'.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Interment.net http://www.interment.net/data/nz/otago/lawrence
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
Community contributions