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Emily Scott

Signed family name
Scott
Signed given name
Emily
Given address
Cardrona
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Cardrona
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Emily Caroline Barker was born in 1873 in Cromwell, Central Otago – the daughter of Jesse Barker, a miner, and Mary Eliza Herring.

Emily married Ernest Uriah Scott, a miner, in 1892 in Cardrona and they had three daughters.

In the 1900s the family moved to Dunedin where Ernest worked as a gardener.

Ernest died in 1944 and Emily died on 27 January 1949, they are buried together 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.