Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Elizabeth Tyrrell was born in 1862 in London, England – the daughter of Thomas Tyrrell, a baker, and Emma Lydia Thomas. (See 163 E L Tyrrell)
She emigrated to Otago on the Canterbury with her family in 1880 and they settled in Dunedin.
Annie married John Hay, a plumber, in 1892 & when she signed the suffrage petition they were living in Opoho Rd, Dunedin.
They had four children, one who died in childhood.
The family moved to Gisborne in the 1900s where John died in 1934.
Annie died at Feilding on 14 November 1941, she is buried with John in the Taruheru Cemetery, Gisborne.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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
Gisborne District Council https://cemeterysearch.gdc.govt.nz/