suffrage_petition
Surname: 
McMillan
Given names: 
Mrs
Given address: 
Vire Street
Sheet No: 59
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Catherine Brown was born about 1842 in Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter of Thomas Brown, a coal miner, and Ellison.

She had a son in 1859 and, on 5 December 1862, she married Thomas McMillan, a blacksmith.

They had seven children before the family emigrated to Otago in 1880 on the Marlborough.

They had three more children after their arrival, one who died in infancy.

When Catherine signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Vire St, Dunedin.

She died at her home on 1 May 1909 and Thomas died in 1918, they are buried together 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

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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