See entry for M. D. Park (sheet 156) for family information.
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane/Jeanie Somerville Rutherford was born about 1861 in Ireland – the daughter of James Rutherford and Jane Somerville.
She emigrated to New Zealand with her family in the late 1870s and they settled in the Inch Clutha district.
She married Andrew John Park, a solicitor, on 6 April 1882 at her parents’ home 'Summerhill', Kaitangata.
They lived in Dunedin where Jane signed the suffrage petition and they had three children.
The family moved to Wellington in the 1910s.
Jane died in Dunedin on 14 January 1928, she is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Andrew died the following year in Wellington, he was cremated.
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Wellington City Council https://wellington.govt.nz
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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