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J. B. Bremner

Signed family name
Bremner
Signed given name
J. B.
Given address
Tokomairiro
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Tokomairiro
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Jane Brown Bryce was born in 1868 in New Zealand – the eldest daughter of Thomas Bryce and Isabella Fleming.

She married David Francis Bremner, a watchmaker, on 19 July 1889 at her family home in Milton, South Otago.

They had seven children and when Jane signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Milton.

They later lived in Wyndam before moving to Dunedin where David died in 1933.

Jane died on 1 December 1963, she is buried with David in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.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.