Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Grey was born in 1857 in New Zealand – the eldest daughter of William Grey and Jane Brotherton. (See 156 Jane Grey)
She married ironmonger Walter Gow on 23 April 1879 at her parents’ home in Roslyn – her sister Eliza married the same day.
They had seven children and when Jane signed the suffrage petition they were living in Belleknowes, Dunedin.
Walter died in 1930 and Jane died at her home on 5 November 1948 – they are buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
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.
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