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Emily Brown

Signed family name
Brown
Signed given name
Emily
Given address
Moray Place
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Emily Maria Berry was born in 1865 in New Zealand, the daughter of Daniel Berry and Maria.

Emily married Sydney Charles Brown, a bootmaker, in 1884. They had two daughters.

When she signed the suffrage petition, Emily was living in Moray Place, Dunedin.

Emily died on 4 January 1909 and Sydney died in 1928. They are buried together in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.

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

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.