Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Originally transcribed as Anita M Harrison
Anna Mary Harrison was born in 1862 in Greenlaw, Berwickshire, Scotland – the daughter of Thomas Harrison, a tailor, and Mary Lamb. (See 146 Mary Harrison)
Anna emigrated to Otago with her family in 1883 on the Wellington.
They lived at first in Port Chalmers before moving to Dunedin and when she signed the suffrage petition Anna was living with her widowed mother in North East Valley.
She married William John MacLean Tate, a master mariner, in 1898 - they had three children and lived in Wellington.
Anna died at her home in Berhampore on 7 August 1933 and William died in 1938 – they are buried together in the Karori Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk