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Adelaide Ayson

Signed family name
Ayson
Signed given name
Adelaide
Given address
Gore
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Gore
City/Region
Southland
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Adelaide Ayson was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of William Ayson, a farmer, and Mary Ann Giffen. (See 76 M Ayson)

When Adelaide signed the suffrage petition she was living on the family farm at Waikaka.

Adelaide died at Waikaka on 23 September 1906 – she is buried in the family grave in the Warepa Cemetery.

Sources 

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz       

Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/

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