Also signed as 129 Jessie Luscombe
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jessie Elizabeth Luscombe was born in Plymouth, Devon, England in 1866 – the daughter of Nicholas Luscombe, a warehouse man, and Honor Pepperell.
Jessie emigrated to Otago with her family in 1874 on the Christian McAusland.
Jessie was living with her family at Milton St, the Glen, Dunedin when she signed the suffrage petition working as a dressmaker.
She married Johannes Henry Seidelin, a nurseryman and widower with three children in 1893, they had four children of their own.
The family lived in Mornington, Dunedin where Johannes died in 1927.
In 1930 Jessie had the honour of helping to lay the foundation stone of the new Mornington Methodist Sunday School as she was one of the earliest scholars of the old school.
Jessie died on 6 January 1956, she is buried with Johannes and his first wife 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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz