Originally transcribed as Jessie N Wylie
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jessie Mitchell Wylie was born in 1871 in South Otago – the daughter of John Liddell Wylie, a carpenter, and Janet Mitchell. (See 128 Janet Wylie)
When she signed the suffrage petition Jessie was living with her family at 'Comely Bank' in Port Molyneux.
She married John Charles Scott, a farmer, on 19 October 1899 at her home.
They had three children and after a few years in Port Molyneux they moved to Coromandel where John worked as a storeman.
John died in 1932, he is buried in the Buffalo, Coromandel Cemetery.
Jessie died on 10 September 1951 in Taumarunui, she is buried in the New Taumarunui Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Ruapehu District Council https://www.ruapehudc.govt.nz/
Thames Coromandel District Council https://www.tcdc.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.
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