Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Flockhart Grainger was born in 1854 in New Zealand – the daughter of Thomas Grainger, a farmer, and Margaret Murie.
She married James Hunter Duckworth, a farmer, on 3 June 1873 and they had 11 children, one who was stillborn and one who died in childhood.
When Isabella signed the suffrage petition they were living in Highcliff on the Otago Peninsula.
She died at her home on 26 November 1920 and James died in 1925, they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/