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Ann Rouse

Signed family name
Rouse
Signed given name
Ann
Given address
Sawyers Bay
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Otago peninsula
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Ann Rouse was born in New Zealand in 1870 – the daughter of William Rouse and Marianne Wratten.

Her mother died in childbirth in 1879 and when Ann signed the suffrage petition she was living with her father in Sawyers Bay, near Port Chalmers.

She died on 2 November 1955 and she is buried with her parents and sister in the Port Chalmers Cemetery.

Sources:

BDM online NZ   https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

DCC Cemetery Records  http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search

Family Search  https://www.familysearch.org

Free BDM   https://www.freebmd.org.uk

Otago Nominal Index   http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.