Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Emma Stutley was born about 1828 in London.
She emigrated to Tasmania, Australia in 1855 on the Donald McKay and she married Peter Jones, a labourer on 9 February 1857 at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Hobart.
They had three children before they sailed for Otago in the mid 1860s and a further four children after their arrival.
The family settled in Milton where Emma signed the suffrage petition.
Emma died on 5 August 1893 in Milton and Peter died in 1903, in Dunedin – they are buried in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Libraries Tasmania https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au