G. F Hastie was sister to Elizabeth Emma Rainton, who signed the same petition sheet.
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Georgina Frances Rainton was born in New Zealand in 1870 – the daughter of Joseph Rainton, a baker, and Jane Bruton.
She married James Thomas Hastie, an expressman, on 27 July 1892 in Dunedin and they had a son in 1893.
When Georgina signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Andersons Bay, Dunedin.
She died in the Dunedin Hospital on 1 September 1894 and is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
James re-married in 1901 and he died in 1952. He was cremated & his ashes were scattered.
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/
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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