Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Collis was born about 1833 in England. She married Samuel Peck Woollett, a jeweller, and they had two sons in Victoria, Australia.
In 1861 they came to Otago on the 'Eureka'. They had a daughter in 1871 in Dunedin.
Samuel had a jewellery shop in Farley’s Royal Arcade and there was also a 'Mrs Woolletts Fancy Repository' which Jane may have run. In 1883 Mrs Woollett from the Arcade was advertising for the return of a lost diamond collar stud.
The family lived for many years in Cargill St although when Jane and her daughter Minnie signed the suffrage petition they were living in Montpellier St.
Jane died suddenly on 25 October 1906 while going to meet her grandson from the Roslyn tram. Samuel died in 1909 while living with their daughter in Invercargill. They are buried together in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
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
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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