Elizabeth King

Signed family name

King

Signed given name

Elizabeth

Given address

Norsewood

Sheet number

439

Town/Suburb

Norsewood

City/Region

Hawke's Bay

Notes

Daughter of Clara King

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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Oline Elizabet… Posted: 21 Sep 2018

Elizabeth King was my Grandmother. Born in Yorkshire to a Quaker family she was the eldest of five children. The family immigrated to Napier New Zealand when she was about 17 years old. . Having been a boarder at a Quaker School in Yorkshire Elizabeth continued her education and later became an infant teacher at Norsewood School in the 1890s She became the President of the local Temperance Union Temperance and helped organize the petition for votes for women. She later married Leonhard Andersen and remained in Norsewood .

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