Originally transcribed as Isabella Brack
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Kae was born on 31 July 1851 in Innerleithen, Peebleshire, Scotland – the daughter of John Kae, a millwright, and Agnes Turnbull.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1858 on the Strathallan - they settled, at first, in Dunedin before moving to the Otago Peninsula.
Isabella married John Telfer, a farmer, on 5 April 1871 and they had two children before John died in 1877, he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Isabella re-married in 1881 to William Bracks, also a farmer, and they had two daughters.
They lived at Sandymount on the Peninsula where Isabella signed the suffrage petition.
Isabella died on 9 June 1905, she is buried in the Port Chalmers Cemetery.
William died in 1915, he is buried in the Andersons Bay 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/