Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Appears to have also signed as 113 Janet Miller
Jeannie/Janet Callander was born in 1851 in New Zealand – the daughter of James Callander, a farmer, & Janet Cutherbertson.
In 1878 Jeannie married David Miller, a grocer & widower with 6 children.
They had a son the following year & when Jeannie signed the suffrage petition they were living in William St, North East Valley, Dunedin.
David died in 1923 & Jeannie died on November 2nd 1938, they are buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
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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