Surname:
Anderson
Given names:
Henrietta
Notes:
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Henrietta Anderson was born about 1844 in Ireland.
She came to New Zealand in the 1860s, and she married Thomas Anderson, a storeman, on February 4th 1874 in Dunedin.
They had four sons and when Henrietta signed the suffrage petition they were living in Timaru.
Thomas died in 1914, and their youngest son James died in the First World War.
Henrietta died at her home on June 22nd 1927. She is buried with Thomas in the Timaru Cemetery.
Sources
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
Community contributions