Signed family name
Hales
Signed given name
Emma
Given address
Queenstown
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Emma Hales was born in 1872 in Queenstown, Otago – the daughter of Walter Hales, a tile and brick maker and Millicent Meadon. (See 107 Millicent Hales)
She was living with her family in Queenstown when she signed the suffrage petition.
Emma married Michael Angelo, a farmer, in 1898 and they had five children.
Michael later worked for the Lake Wakatipu Steam Shipping Company as a deck hand, he died in 1947 and Emma died in February 1955.
They are buried together in the Queenstown Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Queenstown Lakes District Council http://cemeteries.qldc.govt.nz/