Signed family name
Carvell
Signed given name
Elizabeth
Given address
Sandy Mount
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth McLean was born about 1858.
She married John Carvell, a farmer in 1883 in New Zealand – they had no children.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition they were living at Sandymount on the Otago Peninsula.
In 1903 a clearing sale was held on the farm and they moved to Port Chalmers where Elizabeth died on 27 November 1907.
John died in 1910, they are buried in the family grave in the Southern 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