Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Elizabeth Rosevear/e was born in Saltash, Cornwall, England in 1871 – the fourth of five children of Matthew Rosevear, a storekeeper, and Christiana Glasson Wilcocks.
Her mother died in 1877 and the following year her father married Elizabeth Jane Perry. (See 71 E J Rosevear)
Shortly after her father’s re-marriage the family emigrated to Otago where Catherine’s eight half-brothers and sisters were born.
Matthew died in 1888 and when Annie signed the suffrage petition she was living with her step-mother and family in Prince Edward Rd, Dunedin.
She married George Frederick Phillips, a carter, in 1901 and they had two children, one who died in infancy.
George died in 1909, he is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
Annie re-married in 1915 to Walter John Bowden Radford, a widower and chief porter at the Oamaru railway station.
Walter died in 1920 and Annie died on 11 April 1932, they are both buried in the Oamaru Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
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
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/our-services
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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