Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sarah Chapman Pressly was born in 1872 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Hay Pressly, a market gardener, and Sophia Sullivan.
When Sarah signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Andersons Bay, near Dunedin.
She married Arthur Wallace, a labourer, on 25 January 1895 in Andersons Bay and they had four children.
Arthur died in Dunedin in 1925 and Sarah died on 14 March 1960 – they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
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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