Signed family name
Hubbard
Signed given name
Annie
Given address
King St
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Annie Alice Hubbard was born in 1871 in Kent, England – the daughter of Edward Hubbard, a sawyer, & Maria Daplyn.
She emigrated to Canterbury in 1873 on the Cardigan Castle with her parents & when Annie signed the suffrage petition she was living with her parents in King St, Dunedin.
She married John Elmer Downes, a carpenter, in 1898 & they had 4 sons.
They lived, at first, with Annie’s parents in Dunedin before they went to live in Auckland.
John died there in 1939 & Annie died on May 5th 1947, they are buried together in the Hillsborough Cemetery.