Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Helen Ainslie Thomson was born in New Zealand in 1862 – the daughter of Robert Thomson, a nurseryman, and Janet.
She married John Sparrow, a grocer, in 1883 and they had six children.
When Helen signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Frederick St, Dunedin.
They later moved to Opoho where John died in 1921, Helen died on 15 October 1930 at her daughter’s home in Waitahuna.
She is buried with John 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
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.
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