Originally transcribed as Mrs S Pilling
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Janet Jane McColl was born about 1858. She married Thomas Pilling, a journalist, in 1888.
They lived in Lawrence, where Janet signed the suffrage petition, and had four children.
Their last son was born on 25 December 1893 and Janet died shortly after on 2 January, she is buried in the Lawrence Cemetery.
Thomas re-married in 1898 and had a further three children, one who died in infancy – he died in 1940 in Dunedin and was cremated.
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
Interment.net http://www.interment.net/data/nz/otago/lawrence
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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