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Jane Brown

Signed family name
Brown
Signed given name
Jane
Given address
Owake
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Owaka
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Jane Mitchell was born about 1855.

She married James Brown on 13 June 1881 in Dunedin and they had, at least, four children.

When Jane signed the suffrage petition the family were living on their farm near Owaka at Tahatika.

Jane died at their home on 15 June 1917 and James died at Seacliff in 1930, they are buried in the Owaka Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

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/

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