Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane/Jeanie Robertson McHutcheson was born about 1838 in Stirlingshire, Scotland – the daughter of William McHutcheson, an excise officer, and Isabella Phillips. (See 301 Isabella McHutcheson)
She emigrated to Christchurch with her family in 1862 and she married Rev James Waterhouse Wallis, a Wesleyan Missionary, on 6 September 1867 at Blenheim.
They worked in Tonga and Samoa before they returned to New Zealand due to James’ health.
They lived in Auckland then in Christchurch where James was editor of the New Zealand Wesleyan.
James died in Auckland in 1877 from consumption, they had no children, he is buried in the Symonds St Cemetery, Auckland.
When Jeanie signed the suffrage petition she was living in Oamaru with her parents.
She later lived with her brother William and his family in Dunedin (See 341 M McHutcheson)
Jeanie died on 13 May 1920, she is buried with her parents in the Oamaru Old Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
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.
Community contributions