suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Corliss
Given names: 
A. J.
Given address: 
St Clair
Sheet No: 68
Town/Suburb: 
St Clair
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Changed to A. J. after community contribution below

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Paul Corliss

Posted: 08 Aug 2019

This was actually A. J. Corliss - ANNIE JANE CORLISS (nee FINDLAY, born 1861 and died 25 June 1946) who married PAUL CASHMAN CORLISS - later Commissioner of Stamps and 5th child of Mortimer Patrick Corliss and Hannah Cashman Corliss. Annie was the daughter of George Alexander Findlay, a prominent Dunedin citizen, and the sister of David McCubbin Findlay a popular Dunedin lawyer, and Dr John George Findlay a law and political economics lecturer at Otago University. Dr John Findlay (later Hon. Sir John Findlay K.C.M.G., K.C., M.L.C.) was called to the Legislative Council, and was appointed to the Executive Council and Cabinet as Attorney-General and Colonial Secretary (later minister of Internal Affairs). (Members of the Legislative Council, M.L.C., were appointees to the old Upper House of Parliament.