Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Catherine Barbara Bohrer was born about 1850 in Switzerland.
She married Frederick Robert Thomas Fox, a footman, on 5 September 1873 in Trinity, Jersey Islands and they had two daughters.
The family emigrated to Otago in 1875 on the Adamant – they had a further four children after their arrival.
When Catherine signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Andersons Bay Rd, Dunedin & Frederick was working as a groom.
Robert died at their daughter’s home in Oamaru in 1933 and Catherine also died in Oamaru on 14 December 1937.
They are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.
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
Jerripedia http://search.jerripediabmd.net/
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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