Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Janet/Jessie Carmichael was born on 27 July 1861 in Campbeltown, Argyllshire, Scotland – the daughter of Mary Carmichael. (See 299 Mary Farquharson)
She came to New Zealand with her mother as a child and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in Musselburgh, Dunedin.
Jessie married Hugh McKinnon, a mariner, on 10 April 1894 in Dunedin and they had four children.
Hugh died in 1933 and Jessie died at her daughter’s home on 4 April 1941 – they are buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/