Originally transcribed as Frances K Glen
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Frances Roberta Bellamy was born in 1861 in Victoria, Australia – the daughter of John Thomas Bellamy, a storekeeper, and Mary Garret Miller.
She came to Otago with her parents about 1863 and they lived in Dunedin.
Frances married Adam Glen, a printer, on 19 March 1879 at her home in Arthur Street.
They had three children, one who died in infancy, and when Frances signed the suffrage petition they were living in Moray Place.
In 1906 they moved to Mataura to join their son in business.
They returned to Dunedin a few years later where they celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary in 1929 with “a happy little party in the Somerset Lounge”.
Adam died in Auckland in 1937 – he is buried in the Hillsborough Cemetery.
Frances died in Dunedin on 26 June 1950 – she is buried with her mother in the Southern 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
