Also signed as 54 Miriam Romison
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Miriam Harriet Woolf was born about 1896 in England. She married Julius Romison, a Russian confectioner, in 1887 in New Zealand.
Miriam and Julius had three daughters, one who died in infancy and when Miriam signed the suffrage petition they were living in George St, Dunedin.
Romison’s Celebrated Confections were situated in George St, Dunedin, there were eventually several retail shops and a factory in Great King St which is now the site of the University Book Shop and is a Category 2 historic place.
Julius died in 1935 and Miriam died on 19 December 1941, they were both cremated and their ashes scattered.
About the time of Julius’ death the company was sold and became Regina Confectionery then Rainbow Confectionery whose owner invented the pineapple lump.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz