Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Barbara Lockie was born about 1826 in Edinburgh, Scotland, daughter of Janet Lockie.
Barbara married Thomas Lockie, a carter, on 14 June 1853 in Bathgate, West Lothian. They had two children, a son who died aged five and a daughter who died in infancy.
Barbara and Thomas emigrated to Otago in 1860 on the Storm Cloud and lived in Arthur St, Dunedin.
They had a daughter in 1863 who died in 1871, aged nine.
Thomas died in 1901. Barbara died on 24 November 24 1905. They are buried with their daughter in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
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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