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Helen Finch

Signed family name
Finch
Signed given name
Helen
Given address
Milton
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Milton
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Helen/Ellen McConachy was born about 1854.

She married John Finch, a farmer and widower with 10 children in 1892.

They had four children and when Helen signed the suffrage petition they were living at Milburn, near Milton.

John died at their home in 1921 and Helen died on 25 October 1931 at her son’s home in Milton, they are buried in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.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.