Also signed as 139 Alice Gubbins
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alice Gubbins was born in 1871 in Oxfordshire, England – the daughter of James Gubbins, a glover, and Fanny Buswell. (See 43 Fanny Gubbins)
She emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Scimitar with her family and they settled in Dunedin.
Her father died in 1881 and when Alice signed the suffrage petition she was living with her mother in Grosvenor St, Kensington working as a general servant.
She married Arthur Hughes in 1906 and they had two children.
Alice died on 3 July 1918 and Arthur died in 1954 – they are buried with their daughter 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
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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