Biography contributed by Wendy Napier-Walker
Georgina Meek was born Georgina Dallimore on 29 May 1837 in Brighton, Sussex, England to John Dallimore and his wife Sarah Hopgood.
On 21 April 1856 Georgina (a minor) married Arthur Meek in Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England.
On 20 February 1874, the Meek family left Gravesend on the ship La Hogue for Wellington, New Zealand arriving on 26 May 1874. It is not known when Arthur arrived in New Zealand.
In September 1877 Arthur Meek, Clerk of Wellington was a Bankrupt.
The 1893 and 1896 electoral rolls record Georgina Meek living in Ingestre Street, Wellington, Household Duties. 1899–1900 she was living off Hawker street.
Arthur Meek, inmate of the Home of Aged Needy, and partially blind, narrowly escaped being run over by a train in January 1895.
In September 1899 Arthur Meek, age 65 years was granted a full Old Age Pension of eighteen pounds. He had been in the Colony 26 years.
In 1902–03 Georgina was living at 15 Garrett street. From 1905–1911 at 20 Central Terrace, Kelburn. 1914 at 4 Lipman Street and in 1919 at 55 Upland Road, Kelburn.
Arthur Meek died on 10 December 1906 at the residence of his daughter [Margaret] Mrs J G McKenzie, Central Terrace, Kelburn, Wellington and is buried in the Bolton street cemetery.
Georgina Meek died in Wellington Hospital on 7 January 1923, age 84 and is buried in the Bolton Street Cemetery.
Georgina’s daughter, Emma Meek, Ingestre Street, also signed the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition – Sheet 410.
Sources
The Wilson Collection
Evening Post, 4 September 1877, page 3
Evening Post, 7 January 1895, page 3
Evening Post, 6 September 1899, page 4 – Local and General
Evening Post, 9 January 1923, page 1 – Deaths
Manawatu Standard, 11 January 1923, page 5 – Personal
Ancestry – Public Family Trees and New Zealand Electoral Rolls