Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Eliza Jane Thomson was born in 1867 in New Zealand – the daughter of Alexander Thomson, a plumber, and Christina McAuslan. (See 64 Christina Thomson)
When Eliza signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Andersons Bay Rd working as a machinist.
On 31 December 1901, at the age of 34, Eliza married 24-year-old James John Scholfield, a carter.
They did not have children.
Eliza died on 28 July 1918, she is buried with her parents in the Southern Cemetery.
James re-married in 1920, he died in 1938 and is buried with his second wife in the Green Island Cemetery, Dunedin.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/