See also Caversham research databases
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Emma Susannah Warwick was born in 1856 in England – the daughter of John Warwick, a joiner, and Elizabeth Ann Prosser.
She emigrated to New Zealand where she married Thomas Pickering Channon, a currier, in 1875.
They had a son in 1876 who died aged four months before Thomas died in August 1877.
The following year, in January, Emma gave birth to their daughter, also called Emma.
When Emma signed the suffrage petition she was living in Clark St, Caversham working as a saleswoman.
She remained in Dunedin until the 1910s when she moved to Christchurch to live near or with her married daughter.
She died there on 6 November 1948 and is buried in the Ruru Lawn 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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
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.
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