Signed family name
Tonkin
Signed given name
Lena
Given address
St Andrew Street
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Dagmar Frederika Elizabeth Siversten, known as Lena, was born about 1867 in Denmark.
She came to New Zealand in the 1870’s & she married John Henry Tonkin, an electrician, in Dunedin on May 28th 1892.
When Lena signed the suffrage petition they were living in St Andrew Street & she was working as a dressmaker.
They had 2 sons, one who died in WW1 & the other died in 1927.
John died in 1944 & Lena died on April 4th 1951, they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.