Signed family name
Gow
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
King St
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Ann McAinsh was born on July 26th 1814 in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, the daughter of Robert McAinsh and Elizabeth Drummond.
She married John Gow, a weaver, on December 26th 1834 in Auchterarder. They had at least five children before John died in the 1860s.
Sometime after this Ann emigrated to Otago where three of her children also went.
Ann lived in Dunedin, and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her son John and his family in King Street.
She died at her son’s home on October 20th 1916 aged 102. She is buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
