Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Charlotte Adelaide Elizabeth Hiscoke, known as Lillie, was born on 27 May 1874 on board the ship Buckinghamshire bound for Otago.
She was the first of 10 children of William Hiscoke and his wife Elizabeth Holt.
She spent her first years in Christchurch before the family moved to Dunedin where Lillie signed the suffrage petition in South Dunedin.
She married James Campbell Trainor, a second hand dealer, in 1895 and they had three children.
They day that Lillie gave birth to her third child, on 14 September 1899, she died – her son appears to have survived.
Lillie is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
James re-married in 1902 – he had a further 11 children. He died in 1962 and is buried with his second wife in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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