Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Louisa McClure was born on 5 April 1828 in Glasgow, Scotland – the daughter of James McClure, a carver and gilder, and Louisa Vayne.
She married James Paul, an East India merchant, and they had two sons in Bombay, India before they returned to Glasgow.
A further four children were born in Glasgow, one who died in infancy, before the family emigrated to New Zealand in the 1870s.
When Louisa signed the suffrage petition the family were living in George St, Dunedin at their home 'Manhattan' and James was an accountant at the Official Assignee’s Office.
He died in 1895 and is buried with their grandson in the Northern Cemetery.
Louisa then shifted to New South Wales, possibly with her daughter Helen. (See 54 Mrs Kennedy)
Louisa died at her son’s home in Balmain on 2 May 1909, she is buried in the Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney.
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
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au
NSW Government https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Rookwood Cemetery http://www.rookwoodcemetery.com.au/