Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Saunders was born in 1872 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Saunders, a mariner, and Mary Rudd. (See 45 Mrs J Saunders)
When Annie signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Hanover St, Dunedin.
She married Robert Ross McDonald, a wood turner, in 1897 and they had eight children, one who died in infancy.
Robert died in the Dunedin Hospital in 1930 and Annie died on 9 July 1954 at her home in South Dunedin.
They are buried together 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