Notes provided by Helen Edwards, who has carried out extensive research on the women who signed Sheet 156, including mapping where they lived. Download pdf of this research here.
Elizabeth Campbell, nee Whittock [Mrs Campbell, Roslyn] (No. 23)
Land description: Allotment 6, Block 4, Township of Roslyn. Address: (15) Hart Street; 17 Hart Street. Age in 1893: 49 years.
Elizabeth Whittock was the daughter of David Whittock and Margaret Clunnie. She was born at Pitcairns, Perthshire about 1844. In 1859 she boarded the Alpine to travel from Glasgow to Port Chalmers. The following year, at Port Chalmers, she married John McPherson Campbell, a customs officer, born about 1833 in Dunoon, Argyllshire. In 1876 he purchased a property in Hart Street, Roslyn for £276. They had seven children, the youngest two being born in Hart Street. John died suddenly in 1895, after an accident at work, in which he fell down a ship’s companionway and received a fatal blow to his head. Elizabeth was an enterprising woman and in 1898 purchased land in Michie Street from Archibald Anderson, had a house erected and rented it out. She died in 1915, aged 70, and is buried in the Southern Cemetery with her family.