Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alice Eliza Fail was born in Sandhurst, Victoria in 1862 – the daughter of William Gowan Fail and Eliza Fail.
She came to Otago as an infant & the family settled in Port Chalmers where her father worked as a waterman.
Alice married Robert Young, a clerk, in 1883.
They had three sons and when Alice signed the suffrage petition they were living in Forth St, Roslyn.
Robert died in 1905 and Alice died on 14 December 1956 – they are buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au