The 1893 electoral roll confirms Frederick St. She is the daughter of Fanny Walsham who signed above her.
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Josephine Walsham was born in 1867 in New Zealand – the daughter of Joseph Walsham, a labourer, and Fanny Carson. (See 98 Fanny Walsham)
When she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Frederick St, Dunedin working as a boot machinist.
She married Peter Henry O’Rourke, a moulder, in 1893 and they had nine children.
The family lived in the suburb of Caversham then Maitland St in Central Dunedin where Josephine died on 5 December 1926.
Peter died in 1939, 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
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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