Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Bell Johnston was born about 1861.
She married Walter John Hewitt, a builder, in Victoria, Australia in 1885 and they had one daughter.
They came to New Zealand and settled in Dunedin – when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition they were living in Serpentine Avenue.
Walter died in 1895 and Elizabeth re-married in 1899 to Nathaniel Rollinson, a coachman and carter.
They lived in Kaitangata where Elizabeth died on 6 November 1916 – she is buried with Walter in the Southern Cemetery.
Nathaniel re-married in 1918 – he died in 1935 and 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
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au