Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
This entry is either Elizabeth Sinclair or her daughter Elizabeth Rodger.
Elizabeth Sinclair was born about 1846 in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland.
She came to New Zealand and she married Thomas Rodger, a mechanical engineer, in 1866.
They had eight children, including their daughter Elizabeth who was born in 1869.
When the suffrage petition was signed the family were living in Maitland St, Dunedin.
Elizabeth jnr. married James Mitchell Routledge, a mechanical engineer, at her home on 26 December 1895 and their daughter was born the following year.
Thomas Rodger died at his home in 1904 and Elizabeth died in Christchurch on 18 March 1921, they are buried together in the Southern Cemetery.
James Routledge died in 1925 and Elizabeth died on 7 February 1926, they are buried together in the Southern 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