Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Catherine Chisholm was born about 1854 in Borthwick, Midlothian, Scotland – the daughter of Samuel Chisholm, a gun powder maker, and Euphemia Baird.
She emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Auckland and the following year on 2 February she married John Lunn, a carpenter, in Dunedin.
They had six children, one who died in infancy, and when Catherine signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Lees St, Dunedin.
John died in 1930, at the time Catherine was in 'visiting relatives in America.'
She died at her home on 17 February 1942 and is buried with John in the family grave 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
