Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Helen Grant was born in 1874 in Scotland just before her parents William Grant and Catherine nee Deans emigrated to Otago on the Cartsburn.
She lived with her family in the Rothesay/Maia area of West Harbour near Dunedin where she signed the suffrage petition.
Helen married Henry Guyton in 1894 and they had nine children, four of who died in their late teens or early twenties.
The family lived in the Burkes/St Leonards area of West Harbour where Henry died in 1938.
Helen died at Dunedin on 20 March 1951, she is buried with Henry in the family grave 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz