See also Caversham research databases
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Lynch was born about 1847 in Ireland. She married George Francis Burgess on 15 November 1868 in County Kerry.
They had four children, two who died in infancy, before the family emigrated to New Zealand.
George appears to have come before Elizabeth who arrived in Otago in 1875 on the Margaret Galbraith with their two children.
The family settled in Dunedin where they had a further seven children – two of these children also died in infancy.
George worked as a bricklayer – he was declared bankrupt in 1879.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Mount Pleasant, Caversham, Dunedin.
George died in 1906 and Elizabeth died on 28 May 1925, they are buried together 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
Irish Genealogy https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/
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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