Janet Fairley

Signed family name

Fairley

Signed given name

Janet

Given address

High Street Dunedin

Sheet number

Town/Suburb

Central Dunedin

City/Region

Dunedin

Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Janet Fairley was born on 11 October 1838 in Kirkliston, West Lothian, Scotland — the daughter of John Fairley, an agricultural labourer, and Catherine Marshall.

In the 1840s her mother died and her father re-married.

In 1861 Janet emigrated to Otago on the “Lady Egidia” with her sister Margaret (See 61 Margaret Pinkerton) and three half-siblings Helen (See 61 Nellie Dickison), aged 14 and twins Thomas and John aged 12.

Janet did not marry and when she signed the suffrage petition was living in High St, Dunedin.

She died on 13 May 1918 and is buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.