Originally mistranscribed as 'J Oleb'.
Notes provided by Helen Edwards, who has carried out extensive research on the women who signed Sheet 156, including mapping where they lived. Download pdf of this research here.
Jane Dobb, nee Batten [J. Dobb, Roslyn] (No. 37)
Land description: Part allotments 4, 5, 6 of part section 8 Block 5, Township of Roslyn. Address: 44A High Street [1911]; now 144 Highgate. Age in 1893: 48 years. Religious denomination unknown.
Jane Batten was born in Cornwall, about 1845. Her signature on the petition is hard to decipher. She married James Dobb in 1875 in the Helston district and they may have emigrated the same year. James appears in the 1882-1884 Roslyn Electoral Roll as a carpenter in Sunnyside, Roslyn. In 1884 he was a tramway line foreman, living in Kaikorai Valley Road.
The Dobbs bought a house in Hawk Lane, off Highgate, in 1891 for £260, and the 1893 Stone’s Directory lists James Dobb, labourer, with a High Street address. James was a caretaker in 1905 and died in 1906, aged 61. Jane Dobb continued to occupy the house until her death in 1922, aged 77 years. She is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery. The couple may not have had children.