Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alison Grace Cameron was born in 1860 in Victoria, Australia – the daughter of Duncan McIntyre Cameron and Alison Hamilton. (See 61 Alison H Cameron)
Jeannie came to Otago with her family in 1863 on the Red Jacket. She married James MacFarlane, a saddler, in 1884 and they had three children.
The family lived at Dunback in North Otago, Alison or Elsie as she was known, was probably visiting her family in Dunedin when she signed the suffrage petition.
Her son James died 'of wounds somewhere in France' during WWI.
Elsie’s husband James died suddenly in 1920, she later moved to Dunedin where she died on 25 October1927.
They are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
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