Town/suburb changed from Wakari to South Dunedin
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Gibb was born about 1851 in Scotland.
She married John Hughes on 6 June 1873 in Dalmellington, Ayrshire and they had two children before they emigrated to Otago in 1876 on the Dunedin.
They settled in Dunedin and had a further six children.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Main Rd, South Dunedin.
John died on 29 April 1909 and Elizabeth died later that year on 24 September – they are buried together in the Southern 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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