Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Alice Hale (known as Alice) was born in 1849 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, the daughter of Joseph Hale, a puddler in an iron works, and Margaret Forrest.
Alice moved to Lanarkshire in Scotland about 1854 with her family. Then, in 1876, the family boarded the Invercargill bound for Otago.
They settled in Burns St, Carisbrook, Dunedin, which is where Alice and her mother Margaret signed the suffrage petition.
In 1895 Alice married Samuel Sherwood, a railway worker and widower with five children.
The family later moved to Wellington where Samuel died in 1932. Alice moved back to Dunedin where she died on 17 November 1937.
She is buried in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin with her sister Ruth.
Sources
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