Signed family name
Dreaver
Signed given name
J.
Given address
Palmerston
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Janet Malloch was born on February 2nd 1841 in Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland, the daughter of Donald Malloch, a farmer, and Ann McCallum.
She came to New Zealand with some of her siblings in the late 1850s, and settled in Waikouaiti where her brother Donald was a storekeeper.
Janet married William Dreaver, a farmer, on March 23rd 1865 in the Waikouaiti parish. They had 9 children. William died in 1886 when their youngest child was 3 years old.
When Margaret signed the suffrage petition she was living in Palmerston. The 1893 Stones Directory gives her occupation as farmer.
She died on September 30th 1920 at her son’s home in Timaru, and is buried with William in the Palmerston Cemetery.