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Minnie Taylor

Signed family name
Taylor
Signed given name
Minnie
Given address
Enfield
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Enfield
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Marion/Minnie Leitch was born about 1870.

She married John Taylor, a farmer, on 23 June 1891 in the North Otago Parish.

They had 12 children, two who died in infancy, and when Minnie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Enfield.

John died at their home in 1927 and Minnie died in Oamaru on 24 February 1961 – the are buried together in the Old Oamaru Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

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/

Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/our-services

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.