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Kate Hutcheon

Signed family name
Hutcheon
Signed given name
Kate
Given address
Sandy Mount
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Otago peninsula
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Originally transcribed as Kate Hutchison

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Kate/Catherine Helena Delahunty was born about 1851 in Ireland.

She married George Presley Hutcheon about 1871 in Victoria, Australia and they came to New Zealand and had five children.

When Kate signed the suffrage petition they family were farming at Sandymount on the Otago Peninsula.

George died at their home in 1905 and Kate later moved to Dunedin.

She died there on 3 July 1927 and is buried with George in the Andersons Bay 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

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