Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Clara Birtles Atkin was born in 1855 in Norton, Derbyshire, England - possibly the daughter of Emma Atkin.
She emigrated to Canterbury with Emma in 1863 on the Captain Cook and she married James Tregear, a tinsmith, in 1882.
They had four children and when Clara signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Forth St, Dunedin.
Clara died on 3 February 1921 and James died in 1932, they are buried in the family grave 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
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz