Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Iggo was born in 1865 in Gateshead, Durham, England – the daughter of Thomas Ainsley Iggo, a painter and decorator, and Amelia Isabella Gibson. (See 341 Amelia I Iggo)
She emigrated to Otago in 1875 on the Peter Denny with her family who settled in Bluff.
Isabella married George Kirkland, a labourer, in 1885 – they had three children and when Isabella signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Bluff.
George died in 1912 and Isabella died on 28 July 1949, they are buried together in the Bluff Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Invercargill City Council https://icc.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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