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Anna Drysdale

Signed family name
Drysdale
Signed given name
Anna
Given address
Cumberland St
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Annie Arthur Drysdale was born about 1860 in Scotland and she arrived in New Zealand about 1884.

She married David Drysdale, a labourer, (no known relative) on 20 August 1885 in the North Taieri Parish.

When Annie signed the suffrage petition they were living in Cumberland St, Dunedin.

They had a daughter in 1896 who died aged five months and they later adopted Grace who had been born in 1895.

David died in January 1939 and Annie died on 3 October 1939, they are buried with Grace in the Andersons Bay 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

Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/

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