Signed family name
Lyon
Signed given name
Helen
Given address
Port Chalmers
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Helen Clark was born about 1852 in Scotland.
She came to New Zealand where she married Alexander Lyon, a ship’s carpenter, on 22 March 1877 in Dunedin.
When she signed the suffrage petition they were living in Carey’s Bay, Port Chalmers.
Alexander died in 1901 when he fell into the hold of a ship he was working on and Helen died at her home on 1 February 1903 – they are buried together in the Port Chalmers New Cemetery.
Sources :
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/