Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Helen McCulloch was born on 18 March 1827 in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland – the daughter of William McCulloch, a woollen hand loom weaver, and Catherine McNiven.
Helen married Robert Boyne on 9 December 1853 in Logie, Stirlingshire and they had two sons.
The family emigrated to Victoria, Australia in 1858 on the White Star and they had a further two children in Victoria.
In 1862 Helen and the children sailed for Otago on the Aldinga, Robert had presumably gone earlier.
They settled in Queenstown where Robert was a successful storekeeper and they had a further three children.
It was here that Helen signed the suffrage petition.
She died at her home in Ballarat St, Queenstown on 22 October 1902.
Robert died in 1908, they are both buried in the Queenstown Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
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
Public Record Office Victoria https://prov.vic.gov.au
Queenstown LD Council https://www.qldc.govt.nz/
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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