Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Myers was born in 1858 in Pentland Hills, Victoria, Australia – the daughter of John Myers and Alice Patterson.
She married Thomas Campbell Fraser, a teacher, on 24 January 1878 at her parent’s home and they had one daughter before they sailed for Otago about 1880.
They had a further seven children and settled, at first in Drummond, before moving to Woodside where Thomas worked as a teacher and where Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition.
Thomas died in 1901 at their home 'Manaroo', North Taieri and Elizabeth died in Dunedin on 11 September 1940, they are buried together in the West Taieri 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
Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
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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