Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Julia Bradley was born in 1858 in New Zealand – the daughter of Thomas Bradley, a station master, and Margaret Bennett.
She married Sampson David, a shipwright, in 1879 and they had seven children.
When Julia signed the suffrage petition they were living in Forth St, Dunedin.
In the 1910s they moved to Timaru where Sampson worked as a railway bridge inspector.
He died in 1927 when he was knocked down by a train in the Timaru rail yard.
Julia died at her home in Timaru on 4 June 1939, they are buried together in the Timaru 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
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/