Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Strang was born in Victoria, Australia in 1860 - the daughter of James Strang, a carpenter, and Barbara Lawson Brown. (See 42 Mrs Strang)
The family came to Otago in the early 1860s and settled in Dunedin.
Isabella married Hector Alexander McBeath, a printer, on 19 December 1883 and they had three children.
When Isabella signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Grosvenor St, Kensington, Dunedin.
Isabella died on 3 June 1943 and Hector died in 1952, they are buried together 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/
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au