Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jemima Fraser was born about 1850 in Kirkhill, Invernesshire, Scotland – the daughter of James Fraser, a farmer, and Margaret Wishart.
She married David McLachlan, a blacksmith, in 1878 in Partick, Lanarkshire and they had a son before they emigrated to Otago about 1882.
The family settled in Milton where Jemima signed the suffrage petition and they had a further four sons.
In the 1890s they moved to Owaka where Jemima died on 17 July 1922.
David died at their son’s home in Temuka in 1934, they are buried together in the Owaka 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/
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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