Biogrpahy contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Parsons Dunning was born 26 December 1865 in Guernsey in the Channel Islands – the daughter of Henry Dunning, a butcher, and Agnes Lee.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1875 on the Margaret Galbraith.
The family settled in Rothesay, Dunedin where Annie signed the suffrage petition, she was working as a dressmaker at the time.
They later moved to Albany St where Annie married Paul Maximilian Fink, a miner, on 24 October 1901.
They had one daughter & lived in Alexandra in Central Otago until about 1910 when they shifted back to Dunedin.
About 3 years later Paul was declared bankrupt due to failing mining ventures & the building of a house.
Paul disappears from the records after this, Annie died on 21 July 1947 in Dunedin.
She is buried with her parents in the Northern Cemetery.
Her sister Emma also signed sheet 61.
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