Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Janet Walker was born about 1835 in Glasgow, Scotland.
She married George Greig Milne, a merchant seaman, on 3 April 1861 in Glasgow.
George had left his ship the Storm Cloud later that year to work on the Otago gold diggings and Janet sailed the following year on the Nelson to join him.
They had six children and lived, for a time, at Waikawa, where George worked as harbour master before moving to Taiaroa Heads at the end of the Otago Peninsula where George worked as a ship’s pilot.
They lived there for about 25 years and this is where they were living when Janet signed the suffrage petition.
During their time at the Heads Janet established a Sunday School where she taught until they shifted to Dunedin when George retired.
George died in 1901 and Janet died on 19 April 1930, they are buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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