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E. Elizabeth Simons

Signed family name
Simons
Signed given name
E. Elizabeth
Given address
Waikouaiti
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Waikouaiti
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Elizabeth Foster was born about 1831.

She married widower Robert Simmons/Simmonds in 1884, and they lived in Waikouaiti where Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition.

Elizabeth died at her home on July 23rd 1899. She is buried in the St John’s Anglican Cemetery, Waikouaiti.

Robert died in the Dunedin Benevolent Institution in 1909. He is buried in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

DCC Cemetery Records

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

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