Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Catherine McLeod was born about 1838 in Rosshire, Scotland.
She emigrated to Otago in 1865 on the “Peter Denny” and she married Alexander Watt, a dairyman, on 3 July 1867 in Dunedin.
They had 10 children, two who were stillborn and one who died in infancy.
When Catherine signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Watt’s Road, North East Valley.
Alexander died in 1911 and Catherine died on 27 September 1914 – they are buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/