See also Caversham research databases
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Martha Jane Geddes was born about 1864 in Ireland – the daughter of Robert Geddes, a farmer, and Mary Ann. (See 139 Mrs Geddes)
Martha did not marry and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her widowed mother in Maria St, Caversham, Dunedin.
She died in Dunedin on 2 June 1920 and is buried in the family grave in the Southern 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
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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