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Jane Thomson

Signed family name
Thomson
Signed given name
Jane
Given address
City Road
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
North Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Jane Neilson Cunningham was born in 1864 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Cunningham and Susan Anderson.

She grew up in Milton in South Otago where she married butcher Duncan Thomson at her widowed mother’s home on 1 January 1889.

They had six children and lived in Dunedin.

Duncan died in 1926 and Jane died on 27 June 1930 – they are buried together in the Andersons Bay 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

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