Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Euphemia Jane Given was born in 1867 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Given, a builder, and Patience Careless. Euphemia's sister Patience also signed the 1893 Suffrage Petition.
She married Maxwell Instone Fyfe in 1897 and they had two children. Maxwell was a draper whose wife, Alice Mary, and child had died in a shipwreck in 1894.
Maxwell died in 1932 and Euphemia died on 9 September 1955. They are buried together in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz