Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alice Bryan was born about 1823 at Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, England – the daughter of James Bryan and Sarah Hill.
She married Henry Hawthorn, a potter, on 1 July 1844 in Burslem, Staffordshire – they had a son later that year in Burslem before they moved to Lanarkshire, Scotland where their second son was born in 1851.
In 1882 Alice and Henry emigrated to Otago on the 'Lyttleton' and they settled in Milton where Henry worked for the Milton Potteries and where Alice signed the suffrage petition.
Alice died, after a long illness, at her home in Milton on 2 February 1899 – her obituary said she 'was a member of the Wesleyan congregation, and was held in esteem by all who knew her.'
Henry died in 1902, they are buried in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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