suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Mannington
Given names: 
H.
Given address: 
Palmerston
Sheet No: 130
Town/Suburb: 
Palmerston
City/Region: 
Otago
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Originally transcribed as H Mornington.

H Mornington on the 1892 Suffrage Petition

Hannah Mannington was born in 1855 in Kent, England – the daughter of William Mannington, a grocer, and Martha Roswell.

She emigrated to New Zealand and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in Palmerston, North Otago with her widowed sister Elizabeth.

See 130 E Hull

She later moved to Timaru where she worked as a machinist.

In 1897 Hannah married William Shearer, a widower and farmer, and they lived in Wellington.

In 1929 82 year old William, whose memory was failing, went missing from his home. His body was found in a gully near the Karori Cemetery.

Hannah remained in Wellington. She died in July 1948 and is buried with William in the Karori Cemetery.

Sources

General Records Office UK

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Find a Grave

Wellington City Council Cemetery Search

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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Katherine Blakeley

Posted: 25 Jul 2021

Hannah Mannington