Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Clarke was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of Edward Clarke, a storekeeper, and Isabella Kerse.
She married Alexander Goodley, a storekeeper, on 25 August 1886 at her parents’ home in Shag Point.
They had seven sons, the eldest died in infancy, and they lived at Shag Point where Jane signed the suffrage petition.
In 1909 the family moved to Arrowtown where they ran a general store and where they celebrated their Silver Wedding anniversary in 1911.
In 1915 the shop was sold and they moved to Dunedin and opened a grocer’s shop.
Their Golden Wedding anniversary was celebrated in Dunedin in 1936.
Alexander died in 1941 and Jane died on 15 December 1951. They were both cremated and their ashes interred 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
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/