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Annie Reed

Signed family name
Reed
Signed given name
Annie
Given address
Dowling Street
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Elizabeth Hannah Reed (also known as Annie) was born in 1874 in New Zealand – the daughter of Joseph Reed and Elizabeth Ann Richards. Her sister Esther also signed the petition.

Elizabeth married John Lambert, a railway guard, in 1901. They had four children before they divorced in 1938. Both married again, Elizabeth to Ernest Edward Seon in 1939.

Elizabeth died on 15 May 1944 at her daughter’s home in One Tree Hill, Auckland. She is buried in the Hillsborough Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index  http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past  https://paperspast.natlib.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.