Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane/Jean Darling was born on 3 April 1842 in Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter of Andrew Darling, a hand loom weaver, and Jean Young.
She married Robert Sharp, a cooper, on 7 June 1867, in Glasgow and they had three children before they emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Wild Deer.
They had a further three children in New Zealand and when Jane signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Opoho, Dunedin.
Jane died at her home on 1 August 1914 and Robert died in 1920 – they are buried together in the Andersons Bay 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