Clara Lobb

Signed family name

Lobb

Signed given name

Clara

Given address

Georgetown

Sheet number

299

Town/Suburb

Georgetown

City/Region

Otago

Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Clara Susan Rive was born on 28 August 1869 in St Brelade, in Jersey in the Channel Islands – the daughter of Pierre Rive, a carpenter, and Anne Le Brocq.

Clara emigrated to Otago with her parents in 1875 on the Wennington – also on board were her father’s brother and his wife. (See 299 Eliza Rive)

Clara’s parents died in the early 1880s and she and her brother appear to have been looked after by her uncle and aunt.

She married Thomas Spear Lobb, a labourer, on 20 June 1888 in the Lower Waitaki parish.

They had two children and when Clara signed the suffrage petition they were living in Georgetown in North Otago.

They moved around Otago to several localities during their early lives together before they settled at Menzies Ferry, in Southland, where the engaged in farming.

Thomas died in Invercargill in 1936 and Clara died at Wyndham on 29 November 1947, they are buried together in the Edendale Cemetery.