Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Frances Burns was born in 1841 in Monkton, Ayrshire, Scotland – the daughter of Rev Thomas Burns, one of the founders of the Otago Settlement, and Clementina Grant.
She emigrated to Otago with her family arriving on 15 April 1848 on the Philip Laing.
Frances married Henry Livingston, an accountant, at First Church, Dunedin on 16 October 1862 and they had seven children, one who died in infancy and one who died in childhood.
Henry died in 1888 and when Frances signed the suffrage petition she was living in High St, Roslyn, Dunedin.
She died in Christchurch on 28 July 1922 and is buried with Henry in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Going Abroad http://www.ngaiopress.com/lainglst.htm