Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Dorothy Sophia Elizabeth Bade, known as Elizabeth was born about 1843 in Germany.
She married Frederick Krake, a tailor, in London in 1867 and they had three children, one who died in infancy.
In late 1872 the family emigrated to Otago on the Zealandia. They arrived in January 1873 and Frederick died in June the following year – he is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
Elizabeth re-married the following year to Wilhelm Rambaum, a railway surfaceman and later a farmer.
They had a son in 1882 and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition they were living in Mandeville, near Gore.
They both were granted naturalisation papers in 1917 – these were revoked the following year by gazette and they became 'enemy aliens'.
Elizabeth died at her home in Gore on 2 January 1919 & Wilhelm died in Dunedin in 1927 – they are buried together in the Gore 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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/