Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alice May Chetwin was born in 1870 in Oxfordshire, England – the daughter of John Chetwin, a house painter, and Clara Brimfield. (See 65 Clara Chetwin)
Alice emigrated to Otago with her family in 1874 on the John Nicol Fleming and they settled in Dunedin.
She did not marry and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Cargill Rd, South Dunedin.
Alice died on 5 March 1938, she 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
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
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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