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Jessie McKinlay

Signed family name
McKinlay
Signed given name
Jessie
Given address
Allandale Road St Clair
Sheet number
68
Town/Suburb
St Clair
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Janet/Jessie McKinlay was born in 1866 in New Zealand – the daughter of John McKinlay, a farm labourer, and Grace Inglis MacAdam. (See 68 Grace McKinlay)

When Jessie signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Allandale Rd, St Clair, Dunedin working as a dressmaker.

She married James Lyall, a storeman, in 1899 and they had one son.

By 1925 they were living in Glen Eden, Auckland.

James died in 1928 and Jessie died on 17 June 1952 – they are buried together in the Waikumete 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

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