Signed family name
Pole
Signed given name
Annie
Given address
Albany St
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Annie Allen was born in 1858 in Leicestershire, England.
She came to New Zealand & she married John Smalley Pole, a carpenter, in Dunedin in 1882.
They had 6 children & when Annie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Albany Street.
John worked on the building of Lanarch’s Castle on the Otago Peninsula &, at times, he had to travel as far away as Westport to find work.
In 1894 the family moved to Palmerston North & they later moved to Otaki where Annie died on March 17th 1933.
John died at their daughter’s home in 1939, they are buried together in the Otaki Cemetery.