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Originally transcribed as Mrs W. Maggee
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Nancy Elliott was born about 1845 in Ireland.
She married Patrick McGee/Magee on 13 November 1857 in Bushmills, County Coleraine, Ireland.
They had eight children, two who died in infancy, before the family emigrated to Otago in 1883 on the Wellington.
They settled at Fairfield where Nancy signed the suffrage petition and Patrick worked as a coal miner.
Patrick died at their daughter’s home in Dunedin in 1919 and Nancy died on 3 December the following year at another daughter’s home.
They are buried together in the Green Island 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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