Originally transcribed as Mrs Stevens
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Halliday was born in 1871 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Halliday and Augusta Selina Henrietta Jelly.
She married Alexander Patterson Stiven, a carrier, on 27 April 1892 in the Cromwell Parish and when she signed the suffrage petition they were living at Blue Spur near Lawrence.
They had four children and spent most of their life in the Central Otago area.
Alexander died in 1926 in Dunedin and Jane died on 9 August 1949, they are buried together in the Lawrence Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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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