Mrs Moir

Signed family name

Moir

Signed given name

Mrs

Given address

Port Chalmers

Sheet number

Town/Suburb

Otago peninsula

City/Region

Otago

Notes

Originally transcribed as Mrs Moil. Also signed as 345 Mrs Moir

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Isabella Fraser Lind was born in Glasgow, Scotland about 1849 – the daughter of Samuel Lind, a hand loom weaver, and Elizabeth Thomson. (See 55 Mrs Lind)

Isabella emigrated to Otago with her family on the Strathfieldsaye in 1858 and they settled in Dunedin.

She married Joseph Burnett Moir, a tinsmith and plumber, in 1875 and they had 11 children.

They moved to Lawrence in Central Otago in 1880 where Joseph was declared insolvent. The family then moved back to Dunedin and were living in Invercargill by 1885.

When Isabella signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Esk St, Invercargill.

She also signed the petition while in Port Chalmers, probably while visiting her mother and sister who signed next to her.

Isabella died at the Southland Hospital on 27 February 1897, she is buried in the Invercargill Eastern Cemetery.

Joseph died in Dunedin in 1933, he is buried in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.