Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Louisa Sarah Lee Hanson was born in 1849 in Cambridgeshire, England – the daughter of George Robert Hanson and Harriette Waddington.
She sailed for Victoria, Australia with her parents in 1852 on the Merlin and she married John Francis Garvey in 1868 in New Zealand.
They had nine children, one who died in childhood, and they lived in the Central Otago goldfields.
John worked as a mining engineer and mining registrar and the family lived at Waikaia and Naseby before returning to Waikaia where Louisa signed the suffrage petition.
In 1894 the family moved to the head of Lake Te Anau where they built Glade House and ran a mail delivery and tourism business.
When the Government took over Glade House Louisa and John were 'sent to open the hostel at Lake Waikaremoana'.
They retired to Dunedin where Louisa died on 21 February 1915.
John died at Waikaia in 1926, they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Public Record Office Victoria https://prov.vic.gov.au