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Mrs Richmond

Signed family name
Richmond
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
London St
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Allison McMillan was born about 1834, she married Montgomery Cunningham Richmond, a butcher, on 9 January 1865 in Waikouaiti north of Dunedin.

They had six children and lived in Waikouaiti until Montgomery was declared bankrupt in 1870.

The family later moved to Palmerston and Montgomery died in 1883.

When Allison signed the suffrage petition she was living in London St, Dunedin.

She died in Dannevirke on 8 August 1919, she is buried in the Dannevirke Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Tararua District Council https://www.tararuadc.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.