Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jessie Stirling Watt was born in 1872 in Glasgow – the daughter of George Watt, a shoemaker, and Margaret McAllan. (See 120 Mrs M Watt)
Jessie emigrated to Otago in 1874 with her family on the Timaru and they settled in Dunedin.
When she signed the suffrage petition Jessie was living with her widowed mother in Arthur St, Mornington working as a woolcomber.
She married Bertram Spiers on 7 April 1899 and they had five children.
Bertram died in 1944 and Jessie died on 19 December 1964 – they were both cremated and their ashes scattered.
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
NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.nz
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk