Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Kane was born about 1864.
She had a son with Andrew William Alexander Richardson, a blacksmith, in 1883 and they married the same year.
They had a further eight children and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Owaka.
In the 1900s they ran the 'Coffee Palace' in Owaka before leaving the district in 1910.
Before they left they were entertained at a farewell social in the Territorial Hall and presented with inscribed travelling bags from the Owaka Rifles of which Andrew was a member.
Andrew died in Dunedin in 1937 and Elizabeth died on 9 September 1947, they are buried in the family grave 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