Originally transcribed as Miss E Maxwell E
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Eliza Maxwell was born in 1867 in Durham, England – the daughter of William Stuart Maxwell, a joiner, and Sarah Robson. (See 66 Mrs Maxwell)
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1880 on the Canterbury and when Eliza signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Cargill Rd, South Dunedin working as a saleswoman.
She married Charles George Arthur Smith, a clerk, in 1905 and they had one son.
Eliza died on 24 November 1942 and Charles died in 1953, they were both cremated and their ashes scattered.
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
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz