Originally transcribed as Catherine M Lennan
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Catherine Hay was born about 1840, probably in Scotland.
She is possibly the Catherine Hay who arrived in 1863 as an assisted immigrant on the Victory.
Catherine married Thomas McLennan, a carpenter, in 1864 – they had no children and they lived at Broad Bay where Catherine signed the suffrage petition.
Thomas worked on the building of Lanarch’s Castle on the Otago Peninsula and they were both very active in the local Methodist Church.
Catherine died at her home on 6 May 1916 and Thomas died in 1923, they are buried together in the Broad Bay Cemetery.
Sources
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
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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