Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Wilson was born about 1851 in County Tyrone, Ireland – the daughter of Robert Wilson, a flax farmer, and Margaret Allen.
The family emigrated to Victoria, Australia about 1852. Elizabeth’s brother Robert established a successful business as a merchant in Dunedin during the gold rush and Elizabeth came to New Zealand in the 1860s.
She married John Gauld Bremner, a storekeeper in the Otago goldfields, in 1870. They had nine children and lived in Mt Ida and Tapanui before settling in Dunedin about 1880. When she signed the suffrage petition Elizabeth was living with her family in Argyle St, Mornington.
Elizabeth died on 18 July 1906 at Kew, Dunedin, and John died in 1915. They are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
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
Te Ara https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2w30/wilson-robert