Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Anastasia/Annie Sullivan was born in 1856 in Penzance, Cornwall – the daughter of Augustine Sullivan, an agricultural labourer, Jane Waters.
She married James Boddy on 28 July 1875 at the Anglican Church in Penzance and they emigrated to Canterbury in 1878 on the Opawa.
They had three children and when Annie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Shag Point, North Otago and James was working as a coal miner.
They moved to Christchurch in 1894 then to Greymouth in the 1900s.
In 1935 they celebrated their Diamond wedding – Annie died the following year on 4 February and James died later that year in October, they are buried together in the Karoro Cemetery, Greymouth.
Annie’s obituary said she 'took a prominent part in the church and social life of the township. She was a member of the St. Thomas’ Anglican Church, and the Women’s Institute.'
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Cornwall OPC https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/