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Mrs I. Evans

Signed family name
Evans
Signed given name
Mrs I.
Given address
N.E. Valley Opoho
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
North Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Isabella Evans was born about 1866.

She and her husband Henry, a dairy farmer, had six children and when Isabella signed the suffrage petiton the family were living in Opoho, Dunedin.

Henry died in Hamilton in 1924 and Isabella died on 3 October 1932 in Gisborne. They are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search

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.