Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Originally transcribed as Eliza Duckworth.
Eliza Clarke was born about 1839 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England.
She married Robert George Pickworth, an agricultural labourer, in 1858 and they had 6 children, one who died in infancy, before the family emigrated to Otago in 1875 on the Gareloch. They settled in Palmerston where they had a further 3 children, Robert worked as a labourer, and Eliza signed the suffrage petition.
Eliza died on August 14th 1901. She is buried in the St John’s Churchyard, Waikouaiti.
Robert re-married the following year. He died in 1903 and is buried in the Palmerston Cemetery.
Sources
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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