Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Thomson was born on 27 March 1859 in Berwickshire, Scotland – the daughter of Robert Thomson, a ploughman, and Jane Trotter.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in the late 1860s on the William Davie and they settled in South Otago.
Jane worked as a dressmaker before she Jane married Daniel McPherson, a storekeeper, on 7 November 1889 and they had two daughters.
When she signed the suffrage petition they were living at Fairfax, near Milton.
Daniel died in 1902, leaving Jane with two young children – she sold the store at Fairfax in 1903 and moved into Milton.
Jane died at her daughter’s home on 7 June 1938 – she is buried with Daniel in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
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/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/