Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella King was born about 1848 in Scotland – the daughter of Captain King of Glasow.
She came to New Zealand and married William Samson, a crockery merchant, on 10 April 1868 in Dunedin.
They had eight children and when Isabella signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Serpentine Ave, Dunedin and William was working as a bookkeeper.
Over the next 10 years four of their children were to die.
William died in 1906, he is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
Isabella moved to Wellington where she died on 9 November 1922, she is buried in the Karori Cemetery, Wellington.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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/
Wellington City Council https://wellington.govt.nz