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Jeanie Finlinson

Signed family name
Finlinson
Signed given name
Jeanie
Given address
Dunedin
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
No suburb given
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

This entry appears to be Jemima Jane Finlinson. 

She was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of Hewson Finlinson, a fellmonger, and Sarah Helen Bond & sister of Sarah. (See 113 S Finlinson

Jemima signed the suffrage petition in Dunedin. 

She married Robert Wilson in 1912 and they had one daughter. 

Jemima died at her home in Dunedin on 24 September 1944 and Robert died in 1956 – 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

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/

 

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