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J. Roy

Signed family name
Roy
Signed given name
J.
Given address
Maori Hill
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
North Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

This is Janet Roy, sister of Rachel and Jane Roy who also signed the suffrage petition.

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Janet Thomson was born on 15 May 1839 in Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter of John Thomson and Helen Crichton.

She emigrated to Otago on the Pladda in 1860 with her brother John and half- sister Rachel. (See 159 Rachel Nimmo)

She married David Roy, a carpenter, on 16 November 1865 in Dunedin and they had six children.

David died in 1911 and Janet died on 7 July 1919, she is buried with David in the family grave in the Northern 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 Archives http://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.