Signed family name
Johnston
Signed given name
Elizabeth D.
Given address
Gore
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Dickson Johnston was born in 1861 in New Zealand – the daughter of Adam Dickson Johnston, a farmer, and Agnes Rankin.
Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition in Gore, as did her cousin Margaret. (See 76 Margaret S Johnston)
Elizabeth married farmer Peter Thomas Aitken on 3 October 1894 and they lived in the Waikaka Valley.
She died on 24 February 1896 and is buried with her parents in the Warepa Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/