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Jane Carter

Signed family name
Carter
Signed given name
Jane
Given address
Waikouaiti
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Waikouaiti
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Jane Patterson was born about 1835 in Scotland.

She emigrated to New Zealand in the late 1850s and she married James Carter in 1859.

They lived in Waikouaiti where Jane signed the suffrage petition and where James worked as a labourer.

James died at their home in 1902 and Jane died at Seacliff Hospital on January 1st 1915. They are buried together in the Waikouaiti Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

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Find a Grave

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