suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Farquhar
Given names: 
Mrs
Given address: 
Peninsula
Sheet No: 33
Town/Suburb: 
Otago peninsula
City/Region: 
Otago
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Isabella Strachan Waugh was born in 1863 at East Taieri near Dunedin – the daughter of James Waugh, a farmer, and Mary Strachan. (See 33 Mrs Waugh)

She married George Farquhar, a farmer, on 5 December 1888 at Napier.

They had 10 children and when Isabella signed the suffrage petition they were farming at Highcliff on the Otago Peninsula.

George was one of the founders of the Otago A & P Society and was the first man to make cheese on the Peninsula, he died in 1935.

Isabella died on 19 September 1942 at her daughter’s home in Caversham, Dunedin.

'She was possessed of a kind and loveable nature and will be sincerely mourned by a large circle of friends'.

Isabella is buried with George in the family grave in the Andersons Bay 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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