suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Borrow
Given names: 
I.
Given address: 
George Street
Sheet No: 52
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Originally transcribed as 52 F Borrow

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Isabel Susanna Withers was born in London, England in 1856 – the daughter of William Wesley Withers, a carpenter, and Mary Wills Hunt.

She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1875 on the James Nicol Fleming. Isabel married Thomas Borrow, a photographer, in 1879 and they had nine children, two who died in infancy.

When Isabel signed the suffrage petition the family were living in George St, Dunedin.

Thomas died 1925 and Isabel died on 12 February 1941, they are buried in the family grave in the Northern 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

Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk

GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk

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.

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