Notes provided by Helen Edwards, who has carried out extensive research on the women who signed Sheet 156, including mapping where signatories lived. Download pdf of this research here.
Emma Harland, nee Tummons [Emma Harland, Roslyn] (No. 1)
Land designation: Allotment 7, Block 1, Township of Roslyn. Address: (15) Lawson Street. Age in 1893: 55 years. Religious denomination: Wesleyan / Anglican
Emma Tummons was born in Streatham, Surrey, about 1838. In 1864 she married Thomas Harland, a land agent, born about 1833 in Hull, Yorkshire. The marriage was registered in Croyden. All their children, perhaps eight in total, were born in England. They emigrated on the Kaikoura to Wellington in 1885, and settled in Roslyn the same year. Thomas worked as a commission agent and was an avid collector of curiosities. He died in 1907, aged 74 and Emma in 1926, aged 89 years. They are buried in Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery. Their son, Thomas Percy, was a conscientious objector on religious grounds during the First World War. In July 1917 he was forcibly sent overseas on the Waitemata with Archibald Baxter and twelve others. At the age of 44, he spend 18 months in France, assigned to the New Zealand Medical Corps. A piano tuner in civilian life, he died at 15 Lawson Street in 1938.