Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Reid was born about 1833 in Scotland.
She married James Reid on 18 July 1856 in Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire and they had one son before they emigrated to Otago in 1862 on the Victory.
They had a further five children and lived near Milton where James worked as a shepherd and coal miner before they purchased a farm.
In the late 1870s the family moved to Fairfax, near Milton, where Isabella signed the suffrage petition.
James died in 1908 and Isabella died at her home on 15 April 1911, they are buried in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz