Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Anne Miscall was born in Waitahuna, Otago, New Zealand in 1870 – the daughter of Timothy Miscall, a gold miner, and Susan Gildea.
Anne’s family moved to Dunedin in the late 1880s and lived in South Dunedin. Her sisters Ellen and Maggie also signed the 1893 suffrage petition. In the late 1890s Timothy disappeared and no further trace was found of him.
Anne was one of three sisters in the family who became a nun. She was known as Mother Mary St Eustace.
She died in January 1960 and is buried in the Wakapuaka Cemetery in Nelson.
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
Nelson City Council http://www.nelson.govt.nz
Dunedin Family History Group November 2009 newsletter, p.9 http://www.dunedinfamilyhistory.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DFHG-2009-nov-newsletter.pdf
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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