Name and location confirmed 1893 electoral roll, occupation listed as 'Domestic duties'
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Christina Finlayson was born on 17 June 1859 in Contin, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland – the daughter of Finlay Finlayson, a gamekeeper, and Catherine Gray. (See 54 Catherine Finlayson)
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1872 on the May Queen and settled in Dunedin.
Christina married John Porteous, a law clerk, in 1878. They had one child before John died in 1881, he is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
Christina did not re-marry and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in Clyde Ave, Mornington, Dunedin.
Christina died on 7 March 1936, she was cremated and her ashes buried 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
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk