Originally transcribed as Martha Wallace
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Martha Walker was born in 1845 in Gomersal, Yorkshire, England – the daughter of Joseph Walker, a grocer and flock dealer, and Mary Rowley.
She emigrated to New Zealand and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in Clinton, South Otago either near, or with, her sister Ann (See 110 Ann Rhodes).
She moved to Dunedin with her sister’s family in the 1900s where she died on 2 September 1919.
She is buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
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