Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ada Mary Ann Florence Child (known as Florence) was born in 1868 in Surrey, England – the daughter of George Child, a house painter, and Victoria Josephine Rosaline Hooker.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1875 on the Wild Deer and they settled in Dunedin.
Florence married John Dodds, a machinist, on 21 December 1887 and they had two children.
When Florence signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Cargill Rd, South Dunedin.
In 1904 they moved to Wellington where John died in 1944, he was cremated & his ashes buried in the Karori Cemetery.
Florence died on 9 April 1950, she was also cremated.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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.
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