Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Catherine/Kate Meloy was born about 1837, possibly in London.
She and George Lewis Kingston, a sailmaker, had four children, one who died in childhood - there is no record of their marriage in New Zealand.
There is a possibility that George had a wife and children in Australia.
They lived, at first, at Port Chalmers near Dunedin, where George was declared bankrupt in 1870.
When Kate signed the suffrage petition she was living at Garden Terrace, Walker St, Dunedin.
George appeared in a newspaper article in 1890 when he was claiming payment for sails made for the yacht Anonyma – after this he disappears from the records.
Kate appears to have lived, either with or close to, her daughter Laura’s family (See 29 Laura E Johnson) and when they moved to Tasmania in the mid 1900s Kate went with them.
She died on 18 November 1912 and is buried in the Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Hobart.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Libraries Tasmania https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au
Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au
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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