Originally transcribed as Jennie F Corsson
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jeannie Forsyth Corston was born in 1867 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Corston, a sawyer, and Mary Maitland Dunn.
When she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Milton.
Jeannie married Robert Martin, a papermill worker, on 6 September 1894 - they had five children and lived in Mataura.
Robert died in Mataura in 1931 and Jeannie died on 10 August 1952, they are buried together in the Mataura 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Gore District Council http://goredc.govt.nz/