See also Caversham research databases
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Janet Todd was born about 1851 in Glasgow, Scotland.
She married James Russell, a joiner, on 2 January 1871 in Glasgow and they had two sons before the family emigrated to Otago in 1875 on the Auckland.
They had a further four children in New Zealand and when Janet signed the suffrage petition she was living in Main Road, Caversham, Dunedin.
Around this time Janet separated from her husband and he eventually went to live with their son in Masterton.
Janet died at her home on 19 January 1929, she is buried in the Southern Cemetery.
James died in 1930, he is buried in the Archer St Cemetery, Masterton.
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
Masterton District Council https://mstn.govt.nz/services
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
Community contributions