Annie G. Henderson

Signed family name

Henderson

Signed given name

Annie G.

Given address

Gordon Gore

Sheet number

103

Town/Suburb

Gore

City/Region

Southland

Notes

Also signed as 109 Annie G Henderson

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Annie Gunn was born about 1842 in Helmsdale, Sutherland, Scotland – the daughter of William Gunn, an crofter, and Catherine Bannerman.

Annie went to Victoria, Australia in the early 1860s to stay with relatives, apparently for health reasons.

A few years later she came to New Zealand as a companion to Mrs David McKellar.

Annie married William Henderson, a solicitor, at her brother’s home in Dunedin on 21 January 1874.

They had six children, one who died in infancy and they lived, at first, in Lawrence in Central Otago.

A few years later they moved to Balclutha in South Otago then to Gore where Annie signed the suffrage petition.

Annie died at her home in Gore on 15 February 1917, she is buried in the Gore Cemetery.

Her obituary said she 'was well known throughout Gore and district for her unfailing kindness of heart, her charitable disposition and bright, cheery manner.' She was 'an enthusiastic member of the Gore Highland Society and loved nothing better than a chat in her native tongue, and those in a position to judge say she spoke Gaelic with great fluency and purity of diction.'

William moved to Remuera in Auckland after Annie’s death. He died there in 1922.