suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Green
Given names: 
Annie
Given address: 
Roslyn
Sheet No: 156
Town/Suburb: 
Roslyn
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Notes provided by Helen Edwards, who has carried out extensive research on the women who signed Sheet 156 including mapping where they lived. Download pdf of this research here.

Annie Green [Annie Green, Roslyn] (no. 8)

Address: Bruce Street.  Age in 1893 unknown. Religious denomination unknown

Who was Annie Green? She may have been the daughter of Mary Green, whose name appears next on the petition. Mary is known to have had children in the Bruce Street household, probably born in Ireland. However, the 1894 Caversham Electoral Roll lists another set of Greens living in Bruce Street—Annie and William Greene, artist. An Annie McKenzie married William Green in 1891, and further electoral rolls show the Greens in Westport from 1896. William was then more prosaically employed as a carter, and later as a livery-stable keeper. He died before 1911. The Annie Green of the petition could be Annie McKenzie. It is also probable that William Green is the son of Mary (No. 9) and Samuel Green. Annie’s bold signature is written confidently and prominently across the entire page of Sheet 156.

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

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Helen Edwards

Posted: 25 Mar 2019

Five of Samuel Green's children went to Kaikorai School. One was Willie Green, born on 7 November 1871, who left school in February 1886 to go to work. This information makes it very likely that William, the husband of Annie Green, is the son of Mary and Samuel.