Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Elizabeth Brydon Glendining was born on 9 November 1841 in Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire, Scotland – the daughter of James Glendining, a farmer, and Elizabeth Brydon.
She did not marry and after her parents’ deaths she lived with elder brother James before emigrating to Otago in the mid 1880’s.
In 1890 Elizabeth gave evidence in a court case about illegal distilling – at the time she was running a private boarding house in Castle Street called “Eskbank”.
Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition in Arthur Street although she was actually still living in Castle Street at the time.
She died at Seacliff Asylum on 13 August 1903 and she is 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