Signed family name
Driver
Signed given name
Louisa
Given address
Eden Street
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Louisa Alice Brien Burns was born in 1871 in New Zealand - the daughter of Thomas Burns, an engineer, and Mary.
She married George Driver, a bootmaker, in 1890.
They had two children and when Louisa signed the suffrage petition they were living in Eden St, Dunedin.
They later moved to Timaru then to Fairlie where Louisa died on 2 October 1937 and George died in 1945 – they are buried together in the Fairlie Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Papers Past lists Eden St in Dunedin but not suburb
