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Jemima J. Fox

Signed family name
Fox
Signed given name
Jemima J.
Given address
King St
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

The 1893 electoral roll confirms Great King St

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Jemima Jane Pettigrew was born in 1862 in New Zealand – the daughter of James Pettigrew, a mason, and Margaret Given.

She married William Henry Fox, a hairdresser & tobacconist, on 27 April 1883 in Dunedin.

They had five children and when Jemima signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Great King St, Dunedin.

The family moved to Invercargill in the 1900s where William worked as a plumber.

Jemima died in Invercargill on 20 October 1942 and William died in Dunedin in 1943, they are buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

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

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