Isabel Stanley

Signed family name

Stanley

Signed given name

Isabel

Given address

Gore

Sheet number

127

Town/Suburb

Gore

City/Region

Southland

Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Isabella Stanley was born on 7 September 1834 in St Cuthberts, Edinburgh – the daughter of farmer Robert Chisholm and Isabella Baird.

The family emigrated in 1854 on the “Hurricane” arriving in Melbourne in August of that year. The family didn’t stay long in Australia & settled in Auckland a few months later.

Isabella married Thomas Litchfield Stanley, a school master, on 30 March 1868 in Dunedin - they had four children, two who died in infancy.

Thomas was ordained as a minister in 1871 and, in 1881, they moved to Milton where he had charge of the local parish.

They left for England in 1885 where Thomas became pastor of St James in Notting Hill.

By 1888 they were in New South Wales where they lived at Merriwa for 18 months.

When they returned to New Zealand they lived in Lawrence and Lumsden before settling in Gore where Isabella signed the suffrage petition.

Thomas died in Gore in 1897 and Isabella died on 14 August 1906 in Wellington – they are buried with their infant daughter in St Barnabas Churchyard in Warrington, north of Dunedin.