Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ruth Finch was born in 1860 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, the daughter of Thomas Finch, an agricultural labourer, and Sarah Hind (or Hines).
Ruth arrived in Otago in 1863 with her family on the Matoaka.
She married Henry Robert Fleury, a tram driver, in 1880. They had ten children and three died in childhood.
Henry died in 1924 and Ruth died on 28 January 1949. They are buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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
NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.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.
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