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Letitia Reid

Signed family name
Reid
Signed given name
Letitia
Given address
King St
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Letitia was born on 15 May 1871 in Londonderry, Ireland – the daughter of James Reid, an agricultural labourer, and Louisa Connor. (See 51 Louisa Reid)

She emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Jessie Readman with her family and they settled in Dunedin.

When Letitia signed the suffrage petition she was living in King St, Dunedin with her family.

She did not marry and she died on 19 March 1929.

She is buried with her parents in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Sources

DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search

Family Search https://www.familysearch.org

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.