Ann Jenkins

Signed family name

Jenkins

Signed given name

Ann

Given address

Forth Street

Sheet number

151

Town/Suburb

North Dunedin

City/Region

Dunedin

Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Ann Hendry was born about 1840. She married Alfred Campbell, a slaughterman, in Victoria, Australia in 1856.

They had a son the following year before Alfred died in December 1857 when he fell from his horse and fractured his skull.

Their son died the next year, aged nine months. The same year Ann married William Grubb Jenkins, a miner, and they had two sons before they sailed for Invercargill in 1863 on the Edina.

A further five children were born in New Zealand – the family lived in Invercargill until 1868 before moving to Hokitika where William worked as a mercantile clerk.

They left Hokitika for Christchurch in the early 1870s ending their days in Dunedin a few years later.

When Ann signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Forth St, Dunedin.

William died at their home in 1898 and Ann died on 1 June 1912, they are buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.