Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Gibbons was born about 1824 in Berkshire, England.
She married William Barnes, a blacksmith, in 1848 in Surrey and they had nine children before the family emigrated to New Zealand in the late 1870s.
They settled in Cromwell where William ran a blacksmith’s business.
In later life they moved to Mosgiel where William died in 1890 and where Jane signed the suffrage petition.
Jane died at her home on 26 January 1900 – they are buried together in the East Taieri Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/