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Mrs D. Lister

Signed family name
Lister
Signed given name
Mrs D.
Given address
Maria Road
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
South Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Alice Chapman Brown was born about 1849 in Scotland.

She married David Brown Lister, a carter, on 26 March 1875 in Edinburgh and later that year they emigrated to Otago on the Invercargill.

They had five children and when Alice signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Maria Rd, South Dunedin.

Alice died at their home in Macandrew Rd on 1 December 1896, she is buried in the Southern Cemetery.

David died in 1918, he is buried in the Andersons Bay 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.