also signed as 42 Elizabeth Morris
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth McQueen was born about 1841 in Scotland.
She married Thomas Francis Morris on October 29th 1858 in Glasgow and the following year they emigrated to Victoria, Australia on the Jessie Munn.
Their first child was born in 1860 before they sailed for Otago where their next five children were born.
They lived at Blue Spur, near Lawrence, where Thomas was a miner.
They sold their home at Blue Spur in 1883 and moved to Dunedin.
Thomas disappears from the records at this time – he could possibly have gone back to Australia.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition she was living with some of her children in Serpentine Avenue.
She died at her daughter’s home on 18 November 1914 – she is buried with two of her daughters 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au