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J. Oswald

Signed family name
Oswald
Signed given name
J.
Given address
Palmerston
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Palmerston
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Previously transcribed as I Oswald.

Jane Birrell Oswald was born about 1823.

She came to New Zealand in the 1860s or 70s, and she lived in Palmerston with her son Henry, a bootmaker.

Jane signed the suffrage petition in Palmerston. She died on August 15th 1900 and is buried with her son in the Palmerston Cemetery.

Sources

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Waitaki District Council Cemeteries

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.