Also signed as 112 Jeanie Deans
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Georgina Deans was born in New Zealand in 1871 – the daughter of George Deans, a stonemason, and Mary Pollock Abbey. (See 99 Mary Deans)
Georgina did not marry and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her parents in Great King St, Dunedin working as a machinist.
She died on 22 June 1936 at Talboys Home, Dunedin and is buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.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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