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Elizabeth Edmonds

Signed family name
Edmonds
Signed given name
Elizabeth
Given address
Park St Kensington
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
South Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Also signed as 116 Elizabeth Edmonds

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Elizabeth Margaret Edmonds was born in 1868 in New Zealand – the daughter of William Edmonds, a plasterer, and Jane Parry. 

Her mother died in 1873 and her father re-married in 1875. (See 39 Mrs Edmonds

When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Park St, Kensington in Dunedin. 

She did not marry and she died on 9 December 1939 in Dunedin – she is 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

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.