K. Irvine

Signed family name

Irvine

Signed given name

Given address

Shag Point

Sheet number

Town/Suburb

Shag Point

City/Region

Otago

Notes

Originally transcribed as H Irvine

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Catherine/Kate Halkett was born on 2 December 1863 in Bothkennar, Stirlingshire, Scotland – the daughter of Peter Halkett, an underground manager, and Catherine Reid.

She married James Irvine, a mine manager, in Stirlingshire in 1888 and they emigrated to New Zealand soon after.

They did not have any children and when Catherine signed the suffrage petition they were living at Shag Point.

In 1894 they moved to Dunedin, before they left 'a meeting of employees of the Shag Point mine convened...for the purpose of recognising the respect and esteem', James was held in. 'Mrs Irvine, who has endeared herself with the respect and esteem of everyone she has come in contact with will also be missed”.'

'On Sunday afternoon, at the Sunday School, Mrs Irvine, who was the originator of the Sunday School here, was the recipient of a very handsome work-box, Bible, and lady’s hand-bag, as a well deserved mark of the esteem she was held in by the scholars and teachers.'

They lived for a time in Dunedin before moving to Mosgiel where James died in 1928.

Catherine died on 26 August 1940 in Dunedin, they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.