Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Euphemia Campbell Wilson was born about 1844 in South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland – the daughter of William Wilson, a sawyer, and Isabella Campbell.
Euphemia emigrated to Otago and she married William Turner, a tailor, on 24 December 1863 in Dunedin.
They had 10 children, one who died in infancy and a son who drowned in their well at two-years-old.
The family lived in Milton where Euphemia signed the suffrage petition.
She died on 23 April 1907 in Dunedin and William died at their daughter’s home in Milton in 1912, 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/