Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Lucy Jane Hazell was born about 1837 in East Ham, Essex, England – the daughter of James Hazell and Lucy Tullett.
Her mother died in the early 1840s and her father re-married.
Lucy married Charles Forsyth, a gardener, on 28 January 1860 in London.
They had three children before the family emigrated to Otago on the Crimea in 1863.
They lived at Inch Clutha for a short time before moving to Tokomairiro where their farm 'Arnha' was purchased.
They had a further eight children and were still at 'Arnha' when Lucy signed the suffrage petition.
Charles died at their home in 1899 and Lucy also died at home on 2 December 1906, they are buried together in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.nz
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz