Originally transcribed as L J Mayfield
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Louisa Jane Hubbard was born in 1849 in Kent, England – the daughter of James Liddle Hubbard, a pilot, and Louisa Brockman.
Louisa emigrated to New Zealand in the mid-1870s and she married William Laws Walton, a bank clerk, on 8 January 1877 at All Saints’ Church, Dunedin.
They had three children, one who died in infancy. The family moved to Auckland in 1885, due to William’s poor health, before moving again to Napier where William died in 1889.
Louisa moved back to Dunedin where she married Rev William Wingfield on 2 November 1891, again, at All Saints’ Church.
Louisa and William had one daughter and when Louisa signed the suffrage petition they were living at Owaka and she was working as a postmistress.
About 1910 the family moved to the Middlemarch parish where William worked until he retired four years later.
He died at their home in Dunedin in 1918 and is buried in the Southern Cemetery.
Louisa died on 30 June 1932 – she is buried with two of 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
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
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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