Signed family name
Melville
Signed given name
Jessie
Given address
Port Molyneux
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jessie Melville was born in 1869 in New Zealand — the daughter of Andrew Melville, a farmer, and Ellen Ramsay. (See 28 Ellen Melville)
Jessie’s family farmed at 'Riverside' near Port Molyneux in South Otago where she signed the suffrage petition.
She married Thomas Wright, a flaxmiller, in 1898 and they had four children, one who died in infancy.
Jessie died on 20 February 1906 and is buried in the Port Molyneux 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