Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Elizabeth Osborne was born about 1874 in Ireland – the daughter of James Osborne and Ann McCracken.
In 1875 she emigrated to Otago with her family on the “Earl of Zetland”.
The family lived, at first, in Middlemarch before moving to Dunedin.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition she was living in Arthur Street.
She married Rev John Griffiths, a minister from Middlemarch, on 16 March 1897 in Dunedin.
They had nine children – one in New Zealand, two in New South Wales, five in Victoria and one in Queensland - one son died in infancy.
John died in 1950 in Queensland and Elizabeth died on 5 March 1960 – they were cremated and are buried in the Mt Thompson Memorial Gardens, Brisbane.
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
NSW Government https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Irish Genealogy https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/
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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