Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Elizabeth Williams was born about 1841 in Buckinghamshire, England.
She married George Springer, a joiner, in London in 1865 and they had four daughters before they emigrated to Otago in 1875 on the Gareloch.
They settled in Dunedin where they had a further three children and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition they were living in Ascotvale, North East Valley and George was a partner in a firm of undertakers.
Elizabeth died at her home on 27 December 1904 and George died in 1907 – they are buried in the family grave 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