See also Caversham research databases
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Sneddon was born about 1855 in Scotland.
She emigrated to Otago in the mid-1870s and she married Robert Rutherford, a grocer, on 12 June 1877 in Dunedin.
They had three children and when Jane signed the suffrage petition they were living in Caversham.
Jane died at her home on 4 August 1926 and Robert died in 1942 – they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay 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/
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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