Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Catherine Easton Jack was born about 1830 in Aberdeen, Scotland – the daughter of George Jack, a carpenter, and Margery Davidson.
Catherine married Henry Gough on 22 July 1855 in Manchester, England.
They had three children before Henry appears to have died.
By 1871 Catherine was living in Scotland again working as a dressmaker.
In 1890 Catherine, accompanied by two of her children, emigrated to Otago on the “Langstone”. They settled in Dunedin and when she signed the suffrage petition the family were living in High St.
She died at her daughter’s home in Dunedin on 1 December 1904 (See 175 Wilhelmena Gough) and is buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources:
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk