Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Helen Hunter Morrison was born about 1822 in Renfrewshire, Scotland – the daughter of James Morrison and Agnes Gardner Fortune.
She married Hugh McFadzen, a cooper’s clerk, about 1848.
In February 1849 they boarded the Mariner to sail to Otago - their first child Agnes was born on board the ship.
They settled in Dunedin and had a further seven children.
Hugh died in 1884 & when Helen signed the suffrage petition she was living in Sunnydale, North East Valley.
Helen died at her daughter’s home in Timaru on 5 March 1896 – she is buried with Hugh in the family grave in the Northern 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
Going Abroad http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm