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Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Crawford Young Wilson, also known as Jane, was born in 1836 in New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland – the daughter of Hugh Wilson, an agricultural labourer, and Elizabeth McKnight.
She married James McCrorie, a coal miner, in Riccarton, Ayrshire on 31 December 1858 and they had two children, one who died in infancy, before they emigrated to New Zealand about 1865. They settled in Fairfield, near Green Island, and had a further six children, one more who died in infancy.
Crawford signed the suffrage petition at Fairfield.
She died at her home on 11 April 1909 and James died the following year at their daughter’s home in South Dunedin – they are buried together in the Green Island 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
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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