Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jemima Moir was born on 21 March 1857 in Selkirkshire, Scotland – the daughter of James Moir, the foreman in a woollen factory, and Margaret Walker.
The family emigrated to New South Wales, Australia in 1863 on the Hotspur. By the 1870s they had travelled to South Otago & were farming at Ashbank, Hillend.
Jemima married James Chapman, a shepherd, on 24 June 1891 at Knox Church, Dunedin.
They had four daughters and when Jemima signed the suffrage petition they were living in Church St, Roslyn.
Soon after they moved to Stoneburn in North Otago where they had a farm. In 1904 another farm, 'The Grange' was bought.
Jemima died there on 17 September 1910. James re-married in 1913 and he died in 1944.
He and Jemima are buried together in the Palmerston Cemetery, North Otago.
Sources
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz