Signed family name
Taylor
Signed given name
Lillias
Given address
Milton
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Lillias/Lily Oswald was born about 1839, possibly in Scotland.
She emigrated to Otago and she married William Wilkie Taylor, a painter and decorator, in 1864.
They lived, at first, in Dunedin before moving to Milton where Lillias signed the suffrage petition.
They had five children – James served on the borough council and also served as Mayor for a time.
He died in 1917 and Lillias died at Palmerston North on 28 March 1921, they are buried together in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz