Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Edith Cubitt was born in 1872 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Cubitt, a hawker, and Mary Elizabeth Saul. (See 160 Mary Cubitt)
Edith attended Kaikorai School, Dunedin and when she signed the suffrage petition the family were living in King St, Roslyn – now Erin St.
She married Peter McIntyre, a lithographer and artist, in 1895. Peter was one of the founders of the Caxton Printing and Lithographic Company and was responsible for the first coloured lithograph produced in New Zealand.
They had three children, one who died in infancy - their son Peter became a celebrated war artist.
Peter died in 1932 and Edith died on 5 June 1947, they are buried together 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz