Signed family name
Jamieson
Signed given name
Matilda
Given address
Melbourne Street
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Matilda Irvine Jamieson was born about 1836 in County Derry, Ireland.
She emigrated to Otago in 1878 on the Invercargill with her seven children and settled in Dunedin.
When Matilda signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Melbourne St, South Dunedin.
She died at her home in North East Valley on 16 February 1920 and is buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz