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Alice Ferguson

Signed family name
Ferguson
Signed given name
Alice
Given address
St Andrew St
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Alice Sarah Jane Ferguson was born in 1851 in Kensington, London – the daughter of Henry James Ferguson, a newsagent, and Sophia Coward.

She emigrated to Otago in 1887 on the Kaikoura and settled in Dunedin.

Alice did not marry and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in St Andrew Street.

She died on 2 June 1935 at her home and is buried in the Southern Cemetery.

Sources

DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search

Family Search https://www.familysearch.org

Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk

GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk

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.