Also appears to have signed as 150 J. McCurdy
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane McCurdy was born in 1872 in New Zealand – the daughter of John McCurdy, a contractor, and Elizabeth.
When she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her widowed mother in Andersons Bay, Dunedin.
She married Alexander McMillan, a farmer, in 1899 and they had one son.
They lived at Momona on the Taieri Plains where Jane died on 14 July 1933.
Alexander died in Dunedin in 1945 – they are buried with their son 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
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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