Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
124 Lizzie Gardner
Elizabeth Anne Gardner was born in 1863 in New Zealand – the eldest child on Joseph Greenwood Gardner & Anne Savage.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition she was living with her widowed father in High St, Maori Hill working as a dressmaker.
Her father died in 1899 and in 1902, Elizabeth married William Apes, a widower & farmer.
They lived at Karitane, north of Dunedin and had two children before William died in 1912 – he is buried in the Puketeraki Cemetery.
Elizabeth died at her home in Waikouaiti on 19 November 1933 – she is buried in the Hawksbury Cemetery.
Sources :
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/