Originally transcribed as Annie Wilker
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
This is either Annie Reid or her daughter Annie Will Wilkie
Annie Reid was born about 1837 in Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland – the daughter of David Reid, a blacksmith, and Jean Allan.
She married John Lamb Wilkie, a coachman, on 22 June 1866 in Largs, Ayrshire and they had seven children, including Annie Will Wilkie who was born on 1 May 1869 in New Cumnock, Ayrshire. The family emigrated to Otago in 1883 on the Trevelyan and they settled in Dunedin.
Both women were living in the family home in Lees St when the suffrage petition was signed.
Annie Will Wilkie married James Hugh Nimmo, a seedsman, on 30 October 1895 in Dunedin and they had two children.
Annie snr. died at her home on 29 October 1921 and her husband John died in 1926, they are buried together in the Southern Cemetery.
Annie Will Nimmo died on 22 May 1948, she was cremated and her ashes were interred in the Nimmo family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
James died in 1953, he was cremated and his ashes were scattered.
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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