Originally transcribed as G. Clive
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Emily Rix was born in 1844 in Stepney, London – the daughter of Nathaniel Rix, an ironmonger, and Thomason Jay.
Emily married Henry Child, the manager of a charcoal works, in 1868 and they had nine children before the family emigrated to New Zealand in 1884 on the Kaikoura.
Their youngest child died soon after their arrival and the following year their last child was born.
The family settled in Dunedin where Henry died in 1886.
Shortly after Henry’s death an, 'appeal to the charitable', was placed in the newspaper.
When Emily signed the suffrage petition she was living in Graham St, Maori Hill.
She died at her home on 15 June 1908 and is buried with Henry 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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.nz
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz