Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Eliza Sinclair McHutcheson was born about 1840 in Stirlingshire, Scotland – the daughter of William McHutcheson, an excise officer, and Isabella Phillips. (See 301 Isabella McHutcheson)
She emigrated to Christchurch with her family in 1862 and she married Richard Widdowson Morley, a schoolmaster, in 1865.
They had a daughter (See 294 Lellie Morley) in Blenheim in 1873, before sailing for England, where Richard became a Congregational Minister and their next four children were born, one was stillborn.
In 1886 Richard took over a parish at Reeves Town, Tasmania – he died there in 1887.
When Eliza signed the suffrage petition she was living with her children in Oamaru, near her parents.
She died on 6 December 1916 in Christchurch and is buried in the Linwood Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au