Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Lavinia Williams was born about 1836 in England.
She married George Alexander Stein, a clerk, in London in 1882 and they emigrated to Otago a few years later.
When Lavinia signed the suffrage petition they were living in Mornington, Dunedin.
Lavinia died at her home on 13 August 1909 – she is buried in the Southern Cemetery.
George re-married in 1912 – he died in Wellington in 1914 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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/