suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Russell
Given names: 
Lizzie G.
Given address: 
Stafford Avenue Dunedin
Sheet No: 141
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Eliza Grace Russell was born on 28 February 1862 in Mid and South Yell, Shetland Island – the daughter of Robert Russell, a blacksmith, and Elizabeth Laurenson.

Eliza came to Otago in 1875 with her family on the Peter Denny.

The family lived in Dunedin. In 1877 her father died by falling off the wharf at Bluff harbour while going to a job in Stewart Island. 

Eliza did not marry and lived with her widowed sister Clementina Jamieson.

Eliza died on 6 February 1938 at Stafford St, and she is buried with her sister and mother in the Southern 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

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.

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