Originally transcribed as Alice Cote
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alice Mulloy was born in 1853 in Corfu, Greece – the daughter of John Mulloy – a sergeant in the 57th Regiment of Foot, and Ann Hughes.
Her father died in 1855 at the battle of Sebastopol and her mother remarried, in Scotland in 1857 to Maurice Ward, a former soldier.
Alice married Thomas Cole, a carpenter from Wales, in Scotland in 1874 and later that year they boarded the Dunedin bound for Otago.
They settled in Dunedin where they had six children, one who was stillborn.
Thomas served as Mayor of the Caversham borough for a time and when Alice signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Peter Street, Caversham.
Alice died at her home on 28 March 1919 and Thomas died in 1920 – they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.