suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Beveridge
Given names: 
J.
Given address: 
Canongate St
Sheet No: 157
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Jessie James was born about 1832. She married Thomas Beveridge, a tailor, on 23 March 1866 in Knox Church, Dunedin.

They had five children, one who died in infancy. When she signed the suffrage petition Jessie was living in Canongate St. Thomas had died in 1892.

Jessie died on 13 August 1895. She is buried with Thomas in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.

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
Presbyterian Research Centrehttps://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/

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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