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Jeannie McMurray

Signed family name
McMurray
Signed given name
Jeannie
Given address
Milton
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Milton
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Jane/Jeannie Milliken was born on 1 August 1870 in Ballyrogan, County Down, Ireland – the daughter of Margaret Mary Milliken. (See 118 Margaret McMurray)

She emigrated to New Zealand with her mother in the 1870s where her mother married Alexander McMurray, a farmer.

The family lived in Milton and when Jane signed the suffrage petition she was working as a dressmaker.

She married William McIntosh on 15 August 1900 in the Tokomairiro Parish and they had one daughter.

Jane died on 9 February 1947, she is buried in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.

William died in 1955, his burial place is unclear.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Family Search https://www.familysearch.org

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/

Irish Genealogy https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.