Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Emma Keene was born in 1851 in Wiltshire, England – the daughter of Thomas Keene, a police officer, and Mary Ann Wheeler.
She had two daughters before she married William Henry Clark in 1871. They had one daughter together before the family boarded the Hindostan in 1874 bound for Otago.
They were to have a further, at least, nine daughters and they lived at Mosgiel and Whare Flat.
Emma was living in Mosgiel when she signed the suffrage petition.
They later moved to Halfway Bush in Dunedin where William died in 1920.
Emma died in Dunedin on 31 January 1942 – 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
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