Catherine G. Cook

Signed family name

Cook

Signed given name

Catherine G.

Given address

East Gore

Sheet number

109

Town/Suburb

Gore

City/Region

Southland

Notes

Also signed as 103 Catherine G. Cook

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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Margaret G Cook Posted: 7 Oct 2011

I note the name Catherine G Cook of East Gore, Southland, appears on sheet 103 and again on sheet 109. This cannot be two different people surely

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admin Posted: 8 Oct 2011

Hi Margaret

Yes, you are correct - there are at least three sheets we've come across that appear to be duplicates - see more info here

The problem is that on close inspection these are not exact copies. It is a mystery why two versions of the same set of signatures would have been sent in, my best guess is that petitioners were asked to sign two copies and that one was supposed to be kept by the local franchise league, but in some cases they sent in both copies by mistake.

Archives NZ are currently undertaking a complete re-scan of the original petition. Once this is done we will have another look at any omissions and oddities like these duplicates. Once this has happened we'll probably remove the obvious duplicates from this database (around 200 entries out of 24,000) - making sure not to lose any community contributions of course!

Regards, Jamie Mackay

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