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Flora Watson

Signed family name
Watson
Signed given name
Flora
Given address
George Street
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Flora Ann Cameron Grant was born about 1863, possibly in Scotland.

She married Robert Watson, a butcher, in 1884 in New Zealand and they had three children.

When Flora signed the suffrage petition the family were living in George St, Dunedin.

In the 1900s the family moved to Wellington where Robert died in 1932.

Flora died on 19 April 1934, she is buried with Robert in the Karori Cemetery, Wellington.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Wellington City Council https://wellington.govt.nz

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.