Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Campbell was born about 1830 in Scotland.
She married Nisbet Easton, a coal miner, on 25 August 1850 in Stirlingshire.
They had 10 children and lived in Fifeshire, Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire before Isabella and Nisbet emigrated to Otago in 1882 on the Timaru accompanied by their four youngest children.
When Isabella signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Fairfield, near Dunedin.
Nisbet died in 1894 and Isabella died on 8 January 1905 – they are buried together in the Green Island 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