Also signed as 137 Mrs Park
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ann Stewart was born on 25 July 1842 in Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland – the daughter of William Stewart, a grocer, and Magdalene Jardine.
She emigrated to Otago in 1861 on the Silistria with her family and they settled in Dunedin.
Annie married William Park, a plumber, on 26 December 1862 and they had 10 children, one who died in infancy.
William died in 1885 at their home Rosemount, Caversham, Dunedin.
Five years later Rosemount a 'nine-roomed house...with stable, coachhouse, cow and fowl houses: fruit and flower garden, orchard, vinery and tennis lawn' was sold.
Annie moved to a new home in Duke St where she signed the suffrage petition.
In September 1893 the home in Duke St was advertised for sale and Annie moved to Melbourne.
She stayed in Melbourne for a few years before returning to New Zealand and settling in Levin near her son William.
She died at her son’s home on 14 January 1913 and is buried in the Levin 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Horowhenua District Council https://www.horowhenua.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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