Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Matilda Lind was born in Glasgow, Scotland about 1856 – the daughter of Samuel Lind, a hand loom weaver, and Elizabeth Thomson. (See 55 Mrs Lind)
Matilda emigrated to Otago with her family on the Strathfieldsaye in 1858 and they settled in Dunedin.
She married Charles Jacobson, a lighterman from Sweden, in 1875 and they had four children.
When Matilda signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Wickliffe Tce, Port Chalmers near Dunedin.
Charles died in 1919 and Matilda died on 28 June 1919, they are buried together in the Port Chalmers Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
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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