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Jeanie Davidson

Signed family name
Davidson
Signed given name
Jeanie
Given address
Queenstown
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Queenstown
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Jeanie was born on the Skippers gold fields about 1870 – the daughter of Robert Davidson and Jane McCosh. (See 107 Jane Davidson senr)

She moved to Queenstown with her family when she was young and was living there with her family when she signed the suffrage petition.

Jane married Alexander Boyne, a carpenter, on 8 December 1898 in Queenstown and they had two children.

Alexander died at their home in 1924 and Jane died on 20 December 1950, they are buried together in the Queenstown 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

Queenstown Lakes District Council http://cemeteries.qldc.govt.nz/

Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/

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