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Lavenia Wardle

Signed family name
Wardle
Signed given name
Lavenia
Given address
Ngapara
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Ngapara
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Frances/Fanny Lavenia Howard was born about 1871.

She married James William Pritchard Wardle, a carpenter, in 1890 and when Lavenia signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Ngapara in North Otago.

They had seven children, two who died in infancy.

Lavenia died on 13 December 1918 in Oamaru and James died in 1925, they are buried together in the Old Oamaru Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries

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