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Mrs J. Sneeston, House Wife

Signed family name
Sneeston
Signed given name
Mrs J.
Given address
Palmerston
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Palmerston
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Jane Reid was born about 1826.

She married Joseph Sneeston, a carpenter, on August 17th 1870 in the Waikouaiti Parish.

They had 2 sons, and when Jane signed the suffrage petition she was living in Palmerston.

Joseph died in the Dunedin Hospital in 1893. He is buried in the Northern Cemetery.

Jane died on December 20th 1895. Her place of burial is unknown.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

DCC Cemetery Records

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Presbyterian Research Centre

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.