Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Harriet Elizabeth Aburn was born on 12 November 1865 in Woolwich, Kent, England – the daughter of Samuel Aburn, a fancy shop keeper and insurance agent, and Elizabeth Ann Crimp. (See 42 Mrs Aburn)
She emigrated to Canterbury with her family in 1874 on the Mongol and they settled in Dunedin where her father worked as a builder.
Harriet married George Turner, a carter, in 1886 and they had seven children.
When Harriet signed the suffrage petition the family were living at Burnside, near Dunedin.
George died in 1939 in Dunedin, he was cremated and his ashes were scattered.
Harriet later moved to Palmerston North where she died on 19 August 1947, she is buried in the Kelvin Grove 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
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/