Biographical information provided by Briar Barry for the He Tohu exhibition:
Isabella was the wife of James Howden, a ploughman at Ngāpara (near Ōamaru). The couple married in Ōamaru in 1884. The family moved to the North Island in 1898 as James was offered the position of manager on a large agricultural station.
She is probably releated to Bessie Howden of Ngāpara who signed sheet 297
Further biographical information contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Henderson was born about 1858.
She married James Howden on 13 May 1884 in Oamaru and they had six children, one who died in early childhood.
The family were living in Ngapara when Isabella signed the suffrage petition – in 1898 they left North Otago to work on a 'large agricultural station' in the North Island.
They do not appear to have stayed there for long as, by 1901, they were back in Ngapara.
They next moved to Waikaka in Southland – James died at Gore in 1929 and Isabella died at her son’s home on 6 October 1945.
They are buried together in the Gore Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/