Signed family name
Fail
Signed given name
Florence
Given address
Port Chalmers
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Florence Annie Fail was born in 1870 in Port Chalmers – the daughter of William Gowan Fail, a waterman, and Eliza.
When Florence signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Wickliffe Terrace, Port Chalmers.
She died on 21 April 1894 “after a long and painful illness” – she is buried in the family grave in the Port Chalmers Cemetery.
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