Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Catherine Caroline Sharkey was born about 1869, possibly in Australia.
She came to New Zealand and she married Peter Pomery Dungey Botting, a miner, on 20 May 1885 in the Duntroon parish.
They had a son in 1897 and when Catherine signed the suffrage petition they were living in Livingstone in North Otago.
In the 1910s they moved to Naseby where Peter worked as a butcher. They later moved to Edendale in Southland where Catherine died on 9 January 1943, she is buried in the Edendale Cemetery.
Peter died in Oamaru in 1946, he is buried in the Old Oamaru Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian. org.nz/archives/
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/