Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Catherine Bowman was born in about 1829 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland. She married James Mowbray, a weaver, in 1848.
They had at least nine children before they emigrated to Otago on the Janet Court in 1874. Their daughter Agnes also signed the 1893 suffrage petition.
James died in 1912 and Catherine died on 19 April 1915, and they are buried in the family grave in the Southern 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
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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