Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Cuddie was born in New Zealand in 1856 – the daughter of Thomas Cuddie, a farmer, and Mary Parkinson.
She married Alexander Dow, a farmer, on 14 December 1877, they had five children and when Isabella signed the suffrage petition the family were living at Dowfield Farm, Outram, on the Taieri Plain near Dunedin.
Alexander died in 1915 at their home in Outram and Isabella died at her daughter’s home in Mosgiel on 4 October 1931.
They are buried in the family grave in the West Taieri Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz