Isabella Deas

Signed family name

Deas

Signed given name

Isabella

Given address

Mornington

Sheet number

117

Town/Suburb

Mornington

City/Region

Dunedin

Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Isabella Douglas Deas was born in Ladhope, Roxburghshire, Scotland on 22 November 1870 – the daughter of James Deas, a plumber, and Jessie Gardner. (See 117 Jessie Deas)

Isabella came to New Zealand with her family about 1876 and they settled in Dunedin where her father died in 1880.

When Isabella signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Hawthorne Terrace, Mornington, Dunedin working as a darner, as was her mother.

She married James Galloway, a railway employee, on 13 November 1895 at the Mornington Presbyterian Church.

They had seven children and lived in Dunedin before moving to Christchurch in the 1910s.

Isabella died at Christchurch on 30 October 1936 and James died in 1943 – they are buried together in the Bromley Cemetery.