Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Helen Fairburn Affleck was born on 25 January 1853 in Haddingtonshire, Scotland – the daughter of Andrew Affleck, a general labourer, and Elizabeth Vallance.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1858 on the Jura and they settled in Waikouaiti, north of Dunedin.
Helen married Horace William George Robinson, a surgeon dentist, in 1876.
They had four children and when Helen signed the suffrage petition they were living in Ann St, Roslyn in Dunedin.
About 1920 they retired to Rotorua where Horace died in 1935 – he is buried in the Rotorua Cemetery.
Helen died the following year on 30 August – she is buried in the Andersons Bay 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
NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.nz
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
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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