Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Johanna Kerr was born at Outram on the Taieri Plains in 1870 – the daughter of John Kerr, a farmer, and Euphemia Sharp.
When she signed the suffrage petition Johanna was living with her family at Sandymount on the Otago Peninsula.
She married John McKay, a farmer, on 27 December 1899 – they had no children.
John died in 1921 in Dunedin and Johanna died on 22 August 1953, they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/