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Mrs A. Cummings

Signed family name
Cummings
Signed given name
Mrs A.
Given address
Palmerston
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Palmerston
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Previously transcribed as Mrs A Cumming.

Hannah McGowan was born about 1843 in Carlingford, Ulster, Ireland.

She emigrated to New Zealand and married Alexander Cummings, a farmer, on December 6th 1878 in the Palmerston parish.

They had three sons and when Hannah signed the suffrage petition they were living in Palmerston.

Alexander died at their home in 1915, and Hannah died in Dunedin on October 12th 1926. They are buried together in the Palmerston Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Waitaki District Council Cemeteries

Presbyterian Research Centre

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.