Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Adelaide Esther Marie was born about 1853. She married Robert Barnes, an asphalter, in 1874.
They had eight children. When Adelaide signed the suffrage petition, the family were living in Clarendon St, Dunedin.
Robert died in September 1900. The following month, Adelaide married George Goddard Bremner, a wool classer. Adelaide and George later moved to Gisborne.
Adelaide died in Napier on 14 February 1948 and George died in 1968. They are buried in the Hastings Cemetery.
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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.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.
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