Signed family name
Nichol
Signed given name
J
Given address
Gore
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jessie Irvine was born in 1858 in New Zealand – the eldest child of John Irvine, a farmer, and Mary Jane MacPherson.
She married William Nichol, a blacksmith, in 1879. They had four children and when Jessie signed the suffrage petiton they were living in Gore.
They later bought a farm at Brydone, south of Gore where William died in 1912.
Jessie died at Mataura on 26 February 1937 – she is buried with William in the Mataura Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk