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Mrs H. Lunham

Signed family name
Lunham
Signed given name
Mrs H.
Given address
Palmerston
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Palmerston
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Jane Anderson was born about 1843.

She married Henry Lunham, a railway ganger, on August 19th 1874 in the Waikouaiti parish. They had five children.

When Jane signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Palmerston.

Their eldest son died in 1904, and another son died in 1916 fighting in the First World War.

Henry died in 1920, and Jane died at her home on July 27th 1932. They are buried in the family grave in the Palmerston Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Waitaki District Council Cemeteries

Presbyterian Research Centre

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.