Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Ann Butterworth was born about 1846 in England, she married John Thomas Warburton, a watchmaker, on 24 November 1862 in Manchester, Lancashire.
They had one son before they emigrated to Otago about 1868.
A further seven children were born in New Zealand. In the 1870s the family were living at Serpentine, an isolated mining community in Central Otago where John held shares in a quartz crushing operation.
In 1882 the family moved to Dunedin and lived in District Road, Rothesay where Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition.
John had watchmaking shops in Palmerston and Clinton but Elizabeth appears to have stayed in Rothesay.
She died on 15 February 1915 at her daughter’s home in Roslyn. John died later that year, they are buried together 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz