Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Kate Matilda Alderton was born in 1867 in Surrey, England – the daughter of William Alderton, a baker, and Fanny Diplock.
She married Alfred George Moore on 2 December 1884 in Hampshire and, the following year, she sailed for New Zealand on the Tainui.
The shipping records say 'to husband' so, presumably, Alfred had already arrived in the country.
They had seven children and when Kate signed the suffrage petition they were living in Cumberland St, Dunedin.
Alfred worked as a labourer and found it hard to get work.
In September 1911 he was charged with 'failing to provide for the maintenance of his three children...he had done very little work since December last. He neither drank nor smoked'. An order was made for 5s a week for each child.
The family remained in Dunedin until the 1920s when Alfred appears to have moved to the North Island.
He died in 1936 in Palmerston North and is buried in the Kelvin Grove Cemetery.
Kate remained in Dunedin with the children – she died on 12 July 1960 and is buried with her children 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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/