Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ann Newman was born on 31 January 1862 in St Helier, Jersey in the Channel Islands – the daughter of William Newman, a fishmonger, and Mary Sampson.
Annie’s father died in 1871 and, in 1874, she emigrated to Otago on the Dunfillan with her mother, brother and sister.
Annie married Edmund Arundel, a painter, in 1890 and they had four children.
When Annie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Gordon Rd, Mosgiel near Dunedin.
Edmund died in 1917 and Annie died on 7 March 1937, they are buried together 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
The Island Wiki http://search.jerripediabmd.net/