Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Townsend Robbins was born in 1850 in Dorset, England - the daughter of Charles Robbins, a porter, and Charlotte Townsend.
She spent her childhood in St Helliers, Jersey and her sisters Mary and Charlotte also signed the suffrage petition. (See 65 M M Farrant and 140 Mrs E Dowland)
Elizabeth married William Jonathan Frost, a storekeeper, on 31 December 1875 in Dunedin and they had seven children.
William was declared bankrupt in 1881 and several years later the family moved to Invercargill where William worked as a gardener.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Tay St, Invercargill and she was working as a saleswoman.
William died in 1915 and Elizabeth died in November 1925, they are buried together in the Invercargill Eastern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Invercargill City Council https://icc.govt.nz