Jessie Goudie

Signed family name

Goudie

Signed given name

Jessie

Given address

High Street

Sheet number

175

Town/Suburb

Central Dunedin

City/Region

Dunedin

Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Originally transcribed as Jessie Goudier

Janet/Jessie Muirhead was born on 9 March 1856 in Edinburgh, Scotland – the daughter of James Muirhead, a blacksmith, and Janet French.

In 1857 the family emigrated for Otago on the “Strathallan” arriving in January 1858. They settled in Dunedin where Janet’s parents died in 1864 and 1866.

Janet married Basil Hughson Goudie, a salesman, on 18 February 1879 at Fuschia Bank, High Street. They had three children before Basil died in 1888.

When Janet signed the suffrage petition she was living in High St, her occupation was boarding-house keeper. Her sister also signed the petition (See 120 Margaret Peart)

In 1900 Janet advertised in the newspaper that she had lost her pink and grey parrot.

She died at her home on 18 April 1914 and she is buried with Basil in the Northern Cemetery.