Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Barbara Graham Law was born in 1841 in Midlothian, Scotland – the daughter of John Law and Agnes Sommerville.
She emigrated to Otago in 1848 on the Blundell with her parents and four siblings.
The family settled, at first, in Andersons Bay, Dunedin but four years later moved to the Taieri Plain south of Dunedin.
Barbara married Alexander Callander, a farmer, on 26 December 1862 at East Taieri.
They had 11 children and farmed at Scroggs Hill where Barbara signed the suffrage petition.
Alexander died in 1910 and some-time after Barbara retired to Dunedin.
She died at her home in Mornington on 23 February 1924 and is buried with Alexander in the East Taieri Cemetery.
Sources
Going Abroad http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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