Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Scotland Runciman Pringle was born on 7 March 1836 in Edinburgh, Scotland – the daughter of James Pringle, a grocer, and Margaret Runciman.
She married William Clark Ferguson in Edinburgh in 1859 and they had a son before the family emigrated to Otago in 1860 on the Storm Cloud.
They settled on the Otago Peninsula and had a further nine children.
They farmed at St Leonards Farm, Seal Point Road near Sandymount where Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition.
Shortly after this they retired from farming and a clearing out sale was held on the farm - they then went to live in Maitland St, Dunedin.
William died at their home in 1899 and Elizabeth died on 9 May 1905 – they are buried together 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
NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.nz
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
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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