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Annie Garvan

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

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Originally transcribed as Annie Garran.

Annie McKay was born about 1848.

She married Archibald Garvan, a carter, on July 30th 1869 in Dunedin.

They had 11 children and when Annie signed the suffrage petition they were living in Stoneburn, near Dunback, in North Otago.

Archibald died at Palmerston in May 1924. The following day their daughter Annabella died.

Annie died on August 12th 1924 at her daughter’s home at Maheno. They are buried in the Palmerston Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Waitaki District Council Cemeteries

Presbyterian Research Centre

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