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Annie McRae

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

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Annie Montague was born about 1859.

She married John McRae, a farmer, in 1890 and they had six children.

When Annie signed the suffrage petition they were living at Tokorahi near Livingstone in North Otago.

They had a run in the McKenzie country before they 'bought an estate on the Waitaki'.

When they sold this property they bought a run near Waimate, he died there in 1928.

Annie died at her daughter’s home in Waimate on 22 March 1932, they are buried together in the Waimate Old 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

Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/

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