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Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Frances Mary Kelly was born about 1853.
She married John Barnett Neale, a blacksmith, in 1873 in Central Otago.
They had four children and lived in Arrowtown, Outram and Dunedin where John worked as a miner then a mine manager.
When Frances signed the suffrage petition she was living in South Dunedin.
John died in Coolgardie, Western Australia in 1906 – he is buried in the Coolgardie Cemetery.
Frances remained in Dunedin, when she died on 1 December 1934 three of her children had predeceased her.
Frances is buried with two of her children in the St Johns Anglican Cemetery, Waikouaiti.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/