suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Pearce
Given names: 
Isabella
Given address: 
Park Side Caversham
Sheet No: 38
Town/Suburb: 
Caversham
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Isabella Pearce was born on 16 March 1870 at Manor Place, Dunedin – the daughter of Thomas Pearce, a plumber, and Isabella Gibb.

In 1886 Isabella’s father Thomas was declared insolvent. Two years later Thomas was trying to find work in Melbourne and wrote a letter to a New Zealand paper warning people not to come over as there was little work to be had.

The family was back in Dunedin in 1893 living in Parkside, Caversham, when Isabella and her mother signed the suffrage petition.

Isabella died on 27 July the following year, aged 24. She is buried in the Southern Cemetery with her family.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Papers Past  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Otago Nominal Index  http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

See also Caversham research databases

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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