Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Edith Worthington was born in 1865 in New Zealand – the daughter of John King Worthington, a butcher, and Mary/Marie Coxon. (See 355 Marie Ekensteen)
Her father appears to have died shortly after her birth and her mother re-married in 1866 in Invercargill to Bernhard Ekensteen, a storekeeper.
Edith married William George North, a farmer, on 14 September 1887 at her home in Don St, Invercargill.
They had two sons, one who died aged three years.
When Edith signed the suffrage petition they were living in Andersons Bay, Dunedin.
In the 1910s they moved to Clinton in South Otago returning to Andersons Bay in the late 1920s.
William died there in 1932 and Edith died on 31 December 1950 – they are buried with their son 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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