suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Wedderspoon
Given names: 
E.
Given address: 
Maitland St Dunedin
Sheet No: 32
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Elizabeth Wedderspoon was born on 17 June 1865 in Perthshire, Scotland – the daughter of James Wedderspoon, a carpenter, and Margaret Cairns.

Elizabeth emigrated to Otago with her family in 1883 on the Nelson.

The family lived in Maitland St, Dunedin. Elizabeth married Alexander Riach, a butcher, on 1 January 1897, and they had four children together.

The family lived in Christchurch and the West Coast before coming back to Dunedin.

Elizabeth died at Drivers Rd, Dunedin on 23 December 1945 and Alexander died in 1954. They were both cremated and their ashes scattered.

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

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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