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Lizzie Torrance

Signed family name
Torrance
Signed given name
Lizzie
Given address
School Street
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Roslyn
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Elizabeth/Lizzie Aitken was born in 1866 in New Zealand – the daughter of William Aitken, a mason’s labourer, and Jessie Ross. (See 93 Mrs Aitken

She married David Kirkwood Torrance in 1887 and they had five children. 

David worked as a mill operative and when Lizzie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in School St, Roslyn. 

Lizzie died on 19 November 1931 and David died in 1939 – they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ 

DCC Cemetery Records                   

Otago Nominal Index                      

Papers Past                                       

Find a Grave                                      

NZ Intentions to Marry Project    

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