Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Emma Oliver was born about 1845 in Kent, England.
She married plumber Henry Godfrey in Croydon in 1865 and they had three children, one who died in infancy.
In 1876 the family sailed for Otago on the Corona. They settled in Dunedin where their daughter was born the following year.
Henry died in 1878 – he is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
Emma remarried on 24 December 1879 to furnaceman Edward George and when she signed the suffrage petition the family were living in High St, Maori Hill.
Emma died at the Dunedin Hospital on 7 May 1906 – she is also buried in the Northern Cemetery.
Edward died in 1916, he is buried 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/