Signed family name
Dale
Signed given name
A.
Given address
Mc Laggan
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Amelia Saunders was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Saunders and Mary Rudd.
She married Thomas Alexander Dale, a boilermaker, in 1888 and they had four children.
When Amelia signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Maclaggan St, Dunedin.
They later ran a boarding house in North Dunedin.
Thomas died in 1928 and Amelia died on 30 June 1953 – they are buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz