Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Helen Brough was born on 24 August 1856 in Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland – the daughter of Alexander Brough, a boatman, and Helen Jackson.
She emigrated to Otago in the early 1880s and she married William Henderson, a builder, on 8 November 1882 in the Mornington parish in Dunedin.
They had three daughters and when Helen signed the suffrage petition they were living in Granville Tce, Belleknowes.
In November 1932 Helen and William celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary with a gathering at their home - William died three weeks later.
Helen died on 9 December 1946 – she is buried with William 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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