Originally transcribed as Elizabeth Gortshore
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Elizabeth Doubleday Larson was born about 1840 in Scotland.
She emigrated to New Zealand in the mid 1860’s and she married William Gartshore in 1869.
They had one daughter before William died in Roxburgh in 1886 – he is buried in the Roxburgh Cemetery.
Elizabeth and her daughter moved to Dunedin and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in Filleul Street working as a ladies’ nurse.
She also took “charge of children for a remuneration”. In 1889 she had gone to court to have a child committed to the Industrial School when his mother did not pay the allowance agreed. Elizabeth died on 17 May 1920 at Ross Home in Dunedin – she is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
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.
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