The 1893 electoral roll confirms Katie Emily.
Note: originally transcribed as K. C. Chase
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Kate Emily Chase was born in 1868 in London – the daughter of John Francis Chase, a ship broker’s clerk, and Catherine Sarah Chace.
Her father appears to have emigrated to New Zealand before the rest of the family. In March 1882 Kate, along with her mother and siblings, boarded the Famenoth bound for New Zealand. While sailing in the English Channel the vessel was stranded at Whitstable, the passengers were put into life boats and boarded another ship before the Famenoth sank.
The family sailed again soon after as they were in Dunedin by 1884, her father working as a photographic agent.
Her mother died in 1885 and when Kate signed the suffrage petition she was living with her father and siblings in Church St, Roslyn.
She married John McPherson Campbell, a clerk, in 1899 and they had one daughter.
They moved to Auckland about 1920 where John died in 1928. Kate died on 7 July 1946, they are both buried in the Purewa 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
Purewa Cemetery https://www.purewa.co.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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