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Clara Waddell

Signed family name
Waddell
Signed given name
Clara
Given address
Gladstone
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Invercargill
City/Region
Southland
Notes

Biographical information provided by Stefanie Lash for the He Tohu exhibition:

Clara Frances Waddell was born in 1871, the second of twelve children of Emmeline Minnie Gregory and John Waddell. She was 22 when she signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition. Clara never married, and died at the young age of 31 in Southland Hospital in 1902.

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.