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Mrs Neil

Signed family name
Neil
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
Goodwood
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Goodwood
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Clara Louisa Morris was born in 1858 in New Zealand, the daughter of Alonzo John Wells Morris, a tailor, and Alice Kennard.

She married James Neil on January 1st 1878 in the Palmerston parish. They had 8 children, 2 who died in infancy.

When Clara signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Goodwood Road, Palmerston.

She died at Palmerston on July 1st 1895 and James died in 1907.

They are buried together in the Palmerston Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Waitaki District Council Cemeteries

Presbyterian Research Centre

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.