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Jane Ker

Signed family name
Ker
Signed given name
Jane
Given address
75 Brougham Street
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Mt Victoria
City/Region
Wellington
Notes

Biographical information provided for by Fiona Oliver for the He Tohu exhibition:

Jane (or Jeanie) Allender was born in Belfast in 1866. She married Alex Ker, a Wellingtonian auditor, in Belfast in 1891. By the time she signed the suffrage petition in 1893, she and Alex were living in the suburb of Mt Victoria, Wellington, with their one-year-old son James. A daughter, Alice, was born that year. Two more children, Margaret and Alexander, came later. Jane moved with her family to Salamanca Road in Kelburn, Wellington, where she died in 1905, aged 39. 

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