Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Eliza Cuthbertson was born in New Zealand in 1873 – the daughter of Robert Cuthbertson, a farmer, and Mahala Johnson.
Her father died the year she was born and the family moved back to Yorkshire, her mother’s home.
They returned to New Zealand in the late 1880s and Annie married John Henry Rainton, an expressman, on 29 July 1890 in Dunedin.
They had five children, one who died in infancy and when Annie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Forth St, Dunedin.
John died in the Dunedin Hospital in 1913 and he is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
In 1916 Annie married Hugh Mulcahy, she died in Christchurch on 13 August 1954 and is buried in the Bromley Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Christchurch City Council http://heritage.christchurchcitylibraries.com