Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Agnes Colyer was born in 1870 in Invercargill – the daughter of James Colyer and Jessie Keith Rose. (See 341 Jessie K R Colyer)
When Isabella was young her family moved from Invercargill to farm on Colyer’s Island near Bluff where she signed the suffrage petition.
Isabella died at Orokonui Home near Dunedin on 6 September 1951, she is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
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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