Also signed as 60 C Morgan
Catherine Black was born about 1849 in Dunfirmline, Fifeshire, Scotland. She married George Andrew Morgan, a cabinetmaker, on 3 April 1867 in Dunfirmline.
They lived in Edinburgh and they had four children, one who died in infancy.
The family emigrated to Otago in 1875 on the Invercargill and they settled in Dunedin.
When Catherine signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Castle St, Dunedin.
She died at her daughter’s home in Frederick St on 25 June 1897 at the age of 48.
George died in 1925, they are buried together in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.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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