Biographical information provided by Peter Gerrie for the He Tohu exhibition:
Emma was a member of a pioneer family based at Ngatimoti near Motueka. She was born Emma Hardy Burrell around 1836, and married Rev. Thomas Lloyd Tudor, first Vicar at St Thomas’s, Motueka, on 9 April 1872. Thomas had come to New Zealand several years earlier to serve as a domestic chaplain to Bishop Selwyn.
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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