Also signed as 112 Jane Walker
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane was born about 1847 and was married to Isaac Walker, a carpenter.
They were living in Lawrence in Central Otago by 1869 and had six children.
In 1882 they had their house for sale and the following year Isaac filed for bankruptcy.
The family stayed in Lawrence until the early 1890s when they moved to Dunedin.
When Jane signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Jones St, South Dunedin (now Calder St).
Sometime after this Jane and Isaac separated. He died in 1901 when the small hut he was living in caught fire.
Jane died on 8 June 1912, she is buried with Isaac in the Southern 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
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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