Matilda Baird

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Baird

Signed given name

Matilda

Given address

Sefton

Sheet number

256

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Sefton

City/Region

Canterbury

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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Dame Kerry Pre… Posted: 30 Mar 2020

Matilda Jane Baird, (nee Bolton) was born in 1832 in Ballymote, Glenavy, County Antrim, Ireland. She married John Wallace Baird in 1854 in Glenavy. John and Matilda were assisted emigrants to NZ. They came aboard the ship ‘TipTree’ arriving on 20 Jan 1864; their occupations were listed as farm labourers. They arrived in Lyttleton with their first daughter Matilda, 6, and an infant, Ann. She went on to have 5 more children. Matilda signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition, sheet 256, submitted to Parliament 1893. She died at age 73, 17 Nov 1905, Sefton, N Canterbury, NZ.

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