Originally transcribed as Mrs John Wyte
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Janet Richardson Passmore was born on 7 March 1859 in Glasgow, Scotland – the daughter of James Passmore, a rope spinner, and Jane Leinster. (See 36 Mrs Jane Passmore)
She emigrated to Otago with her parents in the early 1870s and she married John Whyte, a schoolteacher, on 14 April 1882 at Pine Hill, Dunedin.
They had two children and when Janet signed the suffrage petition they were living at Highcliff on the Otago Peninsula where John was the school master.
Their daughter died in 1919, their son in 1925 and John died at their home in Andersons Bay in 1929.
Janet died on 16 May 1936 – she left a bequest in her will for the purchase of a pipe organ for the Andersons Bay Presbyterian Church 'to the memory of my late son John and my late daughter Jane'.
Janet is buried with her family 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
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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