Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Frances Perry was born in England about 1861.
She married George Richardson Joll in London in 1878.
They had a son the following year before they emigrated to New Zealand where they settled in North Otago where George worked as a storekeeper.
They had a further six children, one who died in infancy.
When Frances signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Ngapara.
George died in Oamaru Hospital in 1893, he is buried with their infant son in the Old Oamaru Cemetery.
Frances moved to Oamaru with the children where she worked as a dressmaker & also held dressmaking classes in the evenings.
She re-married in 1895 to Thomas Herron who worked as a carrier, then as a fireman.
Frances died at the Oamaru Fire Station on 16 January 1933, she is buried with her first husband and son in the Old Oamaru Cemetery.
Thomas died in 1952, he is also buried in the Old Oamaru Cemetery.
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
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries
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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