Signed family name
Anderson
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
Howe St
Notes
Originally transcribed as K. S. Anderson
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sophie Collenette was born on 18 September 1837 in Guernsey – the daughter of Thomas Collenette, a plasterer, Marthe Drillot.
She sailed for South Australia with her family in 1853 on the Neptune and she married, joiner, William Anderson in Victoria in 1860.
They had a daughter the following year before they came to Otago where they had a further six children, one who died in infancy.
William died in 1883 'after a long and painful illness' and when Sophie signed the suffrage petition she was living in Howe St, Dunedin making her living as a storekeeper.
She died at her home on 11 October 1907 and is buried with William in the Northern Cemetery.