Originally transcribed as Helen R Hutton
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Helen Bryden Douglas was born in 1849 in Edinburgh, Scotland – the daughter of Archibald Douglas, a post office clerk, and Caroline Montague.
She emigrated to New Zealand and married David Con Hutton, a widower with one son, on 31 December 1872 at Pelichet Bay, Dunedin.
David worked as the arts master at the Dunedin School of Art and the teacher’s training college.
They had nine children and when Helen signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Argyle St, off Royal Terrace.
David died in 1910 at their summer residence at Broad Bay and two of Helen’s sons died in 1918 in WW1.
Helen died at her home on 30 December 1923, she is buried with David and his first wife 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz