Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Janet Tinnock Sutherland was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Sutherland, a farmer, and Agnes Tinnock.
Her mother died when she was young and her father re-married in 1883. (See 128 Margaret Sutherland)
When Janet signed the suffrage petition she was living at the family farm Riverside near Port Molyneux.
She married Robert Logie, a labourer, on 5 June 1894 in the Clutha Parish and they had four children, one who died in infancy.
They later moved to Stirling where Robert worked as a carter they retired to Balclutha.
Robert died in 1943 and Janet died on 24 February 1949, they are buried in the family grave in the Balclutha Old Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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/