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Annie Brown

Signed family name
Brown
Signed given name
Annie
Given address
Mosgiel
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Mosgiel
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Annie Rowan was born about 1849 in Selkirkshire, Scotland, the daughter of John Rowan, a power loom manager, and Agnes Hardie. She emigrated to Otago with her family on the Nelson in 1874.

She married Peter Liston Brown, a carter, in 1875. They had seven children and lived in Mosgiel near Dunedin.

Peter died in 1919 and Annie died on 18 March 1924. They are buried together in the East Taieri Cemetery.

Sources

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

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