Anna Green

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Anna/Hannah Chamberlain was born about 1839 in Wellingborough, England.

She emigrated to Otago and she married George Green, a bootmaker, in 1867.

For the first two years of their marriage they lived in George St, Dunedin near the present site of Knox Church before moving to Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula where Anna signed the suffrage petition.

They had six children and, as well as his job as a bootmaker, George also held the position of the local postmaster.

Anna 'with her characteristic energy and foresight, was not idle in the meantime, and, sensing the need for accommodation for the ever-growing influx of week-end visitors to the Bay, she opened Koromiko House, a boarding establishment which in after years became widely known as one of the most popular and best-managed seaside houses adjacent to Dunedin'.

George died in 1903 in Dunedin Hospital and Anna retired in 1919.

She died on 24 June 1926 at her daughter’s home in Broad Bay and is buried with George in the Broad Bay Cemetery.

Her obituary said she 'will be remembered throughout the district for her never-failing thought for the needy, her devoted care of the sick and suffering, and her many kind and charitable actions which were always performed with an entire absence of ostentation. For many years she was also a prominent member of the Methodist Church, and was a willing worker in its cause'.

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