Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Mair Watson was born about 1855 in Scotland, she emigrated to Otago in the 1870s and married Charles Deans, a stableman and widower with four children in 1880.
Together they had a further six children and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Cumberland St, Dunedin.
Charles died in 1918 and, in 1923, Elizabeth married John Gregson, a labourer.
John died in 1929 and Elizabeth died on 7 October 1935, they are buried with Charles Deans and his first wife in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz