Signed family name
Tudor
Signed given name
Emma H.
Given address
Parsonage Wanganui
Notes
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.
Emma signed the Petition in Whanganui, where her husband was serving as Vicar to the local Bishop. Emma Tudor served the church at his side in Motueka, Picton, and Whanganui.
The couple had two children, Mary (born 1876) and Piers (born 1878).
Emma died in Whanganui on 29 August 1907, aged 71.