Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alison/Alice Moffat was born on 16 July 1859 in Deloraine, Tasmania, Australia – the daughter of John Moffat, a farm labourer, and Marion Cairns.
In 1862 she sailed for Otago on the Sea Shell with her family who then journeyed from Dunedin to Kaihiku, in South Otago, in a sledge. They stayed there for a short time before they settled in Wairuna near Clinton.
Alice married William Turnbull, a farmer, in 1878 and they had three sons.
When Alice signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Clinton where William worked as a butcher - two of her sisters also signed the petition. (See 110 Helen Garforth and 110 Christina McLachlan)
The family later moved to Gore where William became an auctioneer for the National Mortgage and Agency Company before settling in Dunedin.
Alice died in Dunedin on 5 April 1914, she is buried in the family grave in the Clinton Cemetery.
William re-married in 1924, he died in 1932 and he is buried with Alice in the Clinton Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Balclutha Geneaology Society http://www.balcluthagenealogy.org.nz/
Libraries Tasmania https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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