Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Ann Younghusband was born in 1857 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Younghusband, a printer, and Mary Ann Turnbridge. (See 68 M A Younghusband)
She had a daughter in 1878 and she married Daniel George Smith, a gardener, on 31 December 1890 in Gore.
Daniel was a widower with four children.
They moved to Dunedin and when Ann signed the suffrage petition they were living in Hillside Rd, St Kilda. They had a daughter in 1898 who died shortly after birth.
The marriage was not a happy one – Daniel “drank and treated her cruelly”.
Ann worked as a florist and had a successful business in the Royal Arcade then in Moray Place from the mid 1890’s until, at least, 1903.
Daniel left the family in 1905 and Ann remained in Dunedin until she “got her hand poisoned with a rusty wire, and had to go to the hospital”.
When she recovered she moved to Auckland to “go to a warmer climate”.
In 1911 she petitioned for a divorce which was granted.
Daniel died in Dunedin in 1912 – he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
When and when Ann died in unclear.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz