Signed family name
Cobden
Signed given name
D.
Given address
Palmerston
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Daisy Davis Cobden was born in 1871 in New Zealand – the daughter of William Cobden, a stationer, and Mary Ann Keedwell.
She grew up in Palmerston, in North Otago, where she signed the suffrage petition.
Daisy married William Gribben Baird, a carpenter, in 1900. They lived in Dunedin and had 4 children.
Daisy died at her daughter’s home at Greenvale in Southland on December 5th 1948. She is buried in the Gore Cemetery.
William died in Dunedin in 1950 – he was cremated & his ashes were scattered.