Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alice Maude Fisher OBren/O’Brien was born on 15 October 1871 in St Brelade, Jersey – the daughter of William Fisher OBren, a shoemaker, and Jane Ellen Langelier.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1874 on the Carnatic and they settled in Dunedin where her parents died in 1885 and 1886.
Alice married John Nelson, an engine driver, in 1893 and when she signed the suffrage petition they were living in Forth St, Dunedin.
They had five children – John died at their home in Dunedin in 1943 and Alice died in Christchurch on 27 June 1957.
They are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.
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