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Isabella Burnard

Signed family name
Burnard
Signed given name
Isabella
Given address
Tapanui
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Tapanui
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Isabella Kirk was born about 1860, she married Samuel Henry Burnard, a farmer, in 1887 and they had four children.

When Isabella signed the suffrage petition they were living in Tapanui, South Otago.

They later moved to Christchurch where Isabella died on 9 March 1924 and Samuel died in 1927, they are buried together in the Sydenham Cemetery, Christchurch.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Christchurch City Council http://heritage.christchurchcitylibraries.com

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.