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Kate Burn

Signed family name
Burn
Signed given name
Kate
Given address
Belleknowes
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Belleknowes
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Kate Emma Thomson was born in 1864 in New Zealand – the daughter of James Elliot Thomson, a farmer, and Catherine Sheath.

She married Alfred Burn, a clerk, in 1893 and they had one daughter.

When Kate signed the suffrage petition they were living in Belleknowes, Dunedin.

Alfred died in 1933 and Kate died at her home on 29 April 1942 – 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

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

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