Originally transcribed as Mrs Rollings
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Elizabeth Reid was born about 1830.
She married Arthur Rollins on 17 February 1870 in Dunedin and they had two daughters.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition they were farming at Purakanui, north of Dunedin.
Arthur died in 1893 in the Dunedin Hospital and Elizabeth died at her home in Purakanui on 26 May 1898 – they are buried together in the Purakanui Cemetery.
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
