Originally transcribed as Annie Loveney
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Clark was born in 1859 in New Zealand – the daughter of Alexander Thomas Clark and Agnes Watson.
Annie married James Donely in 1887 – what happened to James is unclear.
When Annie signed the suffrage petition she was living in Port Molyneux with her future husband Thomas Coveney, a sawmiller.
Annie and Thomas married on 25 November 1896 in the Owaka Parish. Thomas died in 1905 – his burial place is unknown.
In 1907 Annie’s home at Long Bush was destroyed in a large bush fire which destroyed five sawmills.
She moved to Invercargill where she died on 24 November 1937 - she is buried in the Invercargill Eastern 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/