Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Georgina Dempster was born about 1848 in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, Scotland – the daughter of John Dempster, a wool scourer, and Elizabeth Reid.
She arrived in Otago with her family in 1852 on the Stately and they settled in Green Island, near Dunedin.
Georgina married Frederick Freeman on 9 December 1880 in the Green Island Parish and they had four children.
When Georgina signed the suffrage petition at Enfield in North Otago the family were living in nearby Friston.
Frederick died in Oamaru in 1926 and Georgina died on 27 September 1937 at her daughter’s home in Oamaru – they are buried together in the Old Oamaru Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/our-services
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/