Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Lucy Andrews was born about 1840 in Crudwell, Wiltshire, England – the daughter of Samuel Andrews, an agricultural labourer, and Martha.
She married Thomas Collett, a joiner, in London in 1870 – her name when she married was Lucy Andrews Hall which suggests a previous marriage.
They had two daughters before the family emigrated to Otago in 1875 on the Zealandia.
Their next two children were born in Dunedin before Thomas died in 1877 - he is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
Three years later Lucy’s eight-year-old daughter Mildred died, she is buried with her father.
Lucy remained in Dunedin and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in Blacks Rd, North East Valley.
She died at her daughter’s home in Wellington on 4 January 1919 and is buried in the Karori 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
Wellington City Council https://wellington.govt.nz