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Isabella A. Colyer

Signed family name
Colyer
Signed given name
Isabella A.
Given address
Bluff Harbour
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Bluff
City/Region
Southland
Notes

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.