Notes provided by Helen Edwards, who has carried out extensive research on the women who signed Sheet 156, including mapping where signatories lived. Download pdf of this research here.
Alice Mary Littlejohn, nee Perry [Alice M. Littlejohn, Roslyn] (No. 2)
Land designation: Allotment 8, Block 1, Roslyn. Address: Lawson Street, Roslyn, also known as Swanson Street. Age in 1893: 28 years.
Alice Mary Perry, born about 1865, came to Dunedin from Woodend, Victoria. She married James Johnston Littlejohn, a draper’s assistant, born about 1866, who had emigrated from Aberdeen about 1885. They married in Dunedin in 1889, in St Paul’s Anglican pro-cathedral, though James was a member of the First Church Presbyterian congregation. They lived at the Lawson Street property James had purchased in 1887, and their eldest children were born here. Alice gave birth to eight sons and one daughter. One son died in early childhood. Four fought on the front line, where James Alexander Littlejohn was killed, and the other three wounded. Alfred Littlejohn, fighting with the Australian forces, was awarded the Military Cross. In 1894 they sold their sixroomed Roslyn home and moved to Wanganui, where James had successfully tendered for a drapery business. For sixteen years he promoted his drapery with reasonable prices and extensive and enterprising advertising; he presented school prizes, gave public donations and sang at local events. In 1911 they went farming at Onga Onga and retired to Pahiatua about 1920. Alice died in 1921, aged 56, and James died in 1933, aged 77 years. They are buried in the Pahiatua Cemetery.