Originally transcribed as Isabella Smellie
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Jane McIntosh was born about 1866 in New Zealand.
She married James Smillie, a farmer, on 6 September 1888 in the Lower Waitaki parish.
They had seven children and when Isabella signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Georgetown.
They later moved to Glenavy where James died in 1941.
Isabella died in Waimate on 15 October 1947, she is buried with James in the Old Oamaru Cemetery.
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries