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Julia Joyce

Signed family name
Joyce
Signed given name
Julia
Given address
Caversham
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Caversham
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Julia Mary Morris was born about 1840 and she married James Joyce in England in 1874.

Shortly after their marriage they emigrated to Otago on the “Jessie Readman". They had no children.

When Julia signed the suffrage petition they were living at Parkside, Caversham and James was working as a groom.

James died in 1895 and Julia died on 24 August 1913. They are buried together in the Southern 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

See also Caversham research databases

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