suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Young
Given names: 
Elisabeth
Given address: 
Milton
Sheet No: 118
Town/Suburb: 
Milton
City/Region: 
Otago
Notes: 

Originally transcribed as Elisebeth Young

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Elizabeth Wallace was born about 1847 in Rothesay, Buteshire, Scotland.

She married Anthony Young, a limestone miner, on 23 November 1869 in Lanarkshire – they had no children.

In 1874 they emigrated to Otago on the Invercargill and they settled in Milton where Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition and Anthony was a colliery lessee.

In 1913 Elizabeth was suffering from cancer when she had an operation in the Dunedin Hospital.

She died on 12 February from heart failure after an anaesthetic.

Anthony died in 1915, they are buried in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

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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