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Jessie Dippie

Signed family name
Dippie
Signed given name
Jessie
Given address
George St
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Jessie Dippie was born in New Zealand in 1865 – the daughter of Alexander Dippie, a carpenter, & Jane Ross. (See 56 Mrs Dippie)

When she signed the suffrage petition Jessie was living with her family in George St, Dunedin.

She married George Campbell, a stationer, on 12 June 1895 at her parent’s house.

They had a son two years later who died at the age of 19.

Jessie died on 10 November 1930, she is buried with her son in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

George re-married in 1933, he died in 1939 and is buried with his second wife also in the Andersons Bay 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

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