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Miss J. A. Horwood

Signed family name
Horwood
Signed given name
Miss J. A.
Given address
Rattray St
Sheet number
31
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Isabella Nash was born about 1857 in Cheltenham, Gloucester. She arrived in New Zealand about 1874. Isabella and James Augustus Horwood had fifteen children between 1875 and 1898, four dying in infancy. Isabella and James did not marry until November 1916.

James worked as a lithographer for a printer. The family lived in Dunedin and had a few years in Christchurch before returning to Dunedin about 1892.

The family lived in Rattray St where James died in 1917. Isabella died at Bird St, Dunedin on 22 October 1941 and is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Sources

Otago Nominal Index  http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
 
 
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.