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Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Charlotte Stimson was born in 1841 in Littlemore, Oxfordshire, England – the daughter of John Stimson, an agricultural labourer, and Sarah Barber.
She married William Halsey, a platelayer, in 1867 in London and they had one son before they emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Sussex.
William died Port Chalmers in May 1883 and Charlotte re-married later that year, in August, to William Jordan, a miner.
Charlotte and William had a daughter in 1885 and when Charlotte signed the suffrage petition they were living in Fairfield, near Dunedin.
Charlotte died at her home in Fairfield on 24 October 1903 – she is buried with William Halsey in the Port Chalmers Cemetery.
What happened to William Jordan after this time in unclear.
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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz