It appears that Jane may have signed the petition twice, once on Sheet 115 and once on Sheet 66.
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley:
Jane Reid Bell was born on 1 July 1859 in Glasgow, Scotland – daughter of Dugald Bell and Elizabeth Watson. Jane came to Otago with her family in about 1873.
In 1886 Jane married Thomas Hodgson, a coal merchant and a preacher at the Cargill Rd Wesleyan Church in Dunedin. Thomas was presented with a “handsome marble clock on the occasion of his marriage” by the Cargill Rd Wesleyan Sunday School. They had one son when, in May 1888, Thomas died of typhoid fever. Jane gave birth to a second son six months later.
Jane ran a drapers shop in South Dunedin and, in 1906, she married Jacob Crow - a miner and quarryman who was a widower.
Both of Jane’s sons enlisted in the First World War. Her eldest son Thomas died in 1917 while in action in France and her youngest son Douglas died in 1919 of a railway accident while in England waiting to return home.
Jane died at Helena St, South Dunedin on 5 September 1933. She is buried with her first husband and parents in the Southern Cemetery. Jacob Crow died in 1945 at Bannockburn near Cromwell in Central Otago. He is buried in the Cromwell Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
