Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Allan was born about 1868 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Allan, a farmer, and Jane Miller.
She grew up in Merton, north of Dunedin and she married John Crawford, a farm labourer, on 4 August 1892 in the Merton Parish.
They had five children and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition they were living at Ratanui near Owaka.
They moved to their farm 'Forest Braes' at Omimi, north of Dunedin in the mid 1900s .
John died in the Dunedin Hospital in 1910, after John’s death Elizabeth and the children moved to Dunedin.
She died there on 3 March 1940 and is buried with John in the Waitati Cemetery.
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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