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Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ann Bower was born on 29 January 1863 in Edinburgh, Scotland – the daughter of John Bower, a grocer, and Elizabeth Baxter. (See 38 Elisabeth Bower)
She emigrated to New Zealand in the late 1860s with her family but in 1881 the family were living back in Edinburgh and her mother was a widow.
They travelled back to Otago on the the Westland arriving in January 1882 and settled in Dunedin.
Ann worked as a photographic retoucher and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Park St, Kensington.
In 1895 Ann advertised that she was 'FORMING CLASSES for Drawing, Painting, Retouching; also in Finishing Bromide or Opal Enlargements'.
She married Leonard Alfred Bone, a warehouseman, on 19 April 1897 at Roslyn, Dunedin and they had two sons.
The family lived in Invercargill and later shifted to Hawera where Leonard worked as a draper.
Ann died in Hawera on 22 September 1946 and Leonard died in 1958, they are buried together in the Hawera Cemetery.
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
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
South Taranaki Dist Council https://public.stdc.govt.nz/cemeteries/
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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