Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Christina Bertram was born about 1856 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
She married James Manson, a blacksmith, in 1878 and they had a daughter before they emigrated to Otago in 1879 on the Auckland.
Their daughter died on the voyage and was buried at sea.
They settled in Dunedin where they had a further five children and when Christina signed the suffrage petition they were living in Sunnydale, North East Valley.
James died in 1904 and Christina died on 18 April 1911 – they are buried in the family grave in the Northern 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
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk