Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Matthew was born in 1832 in New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland – the daughter of William Matthew, a shoemaker, and Ann Sangster.
She came to New Zealand in the early 1860s and she married James Dickie Carson on 3 November 1865 in Dunedin.
They had five children and James worked as gaoler at the Dunedin Prison.
He died in 1871 shortly after the birth of their youngest child.
When Jane signed the suffrage petition she was living with her daughter in Hawthorne Ave, Mornington.
She died at her daughter’s home in Wellington on 12 June 1910 and she is buried with James in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/