suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Baxter
Given names: 
Mrs E.
Given address: 
Grange St
Sheet No: 168
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Elizabeth Sinclair Begbie was born on August 2nd 1846 in Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter of Andrew Begbie, an engineer, & Margaret Crawford.

Her mother died in 1862 & soon after the family emigrated to Otago.

Elizabeth married Alexander Kirk Baxter, an expressman, on December 31st 1867 in Dunedin.

They had 5 children & when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Grange Street.

Alexander died in July 1923 & Elizabeth died at her home 6 weeks later on September 15th.

They are buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

DCC Cemetery Records

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Presbyterian Research Centre

Scotlands People

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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