Also signed as 109 Catherine G. Cook
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Catherine Gilchrist Cook was born in 1870 in Stirlingshire, Scotland – the daughter of James Miller Cook, a fishmonger, and Helen McLeod Craig.
She emigrated to New Zealand with her parents and older sister in the early 1870s and they settled in Southland.
When Catherine signed the suffrage petition she was living in East Gore working as a cook.
She married John Johnson, a bootmaker, on 23 November 1898 at the Gore Presbyterian Church.
They had three children and lived in Dunedin.
John died in 1955 and Catherine died on 14 December 1961 – they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
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
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
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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