suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Adams
Given names: 
Mrs W. H.
Given address: 
N.E. Valley
Sheet No: 146
Town/Suburb: 
North Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Eliza Johnston Dagger was born on 13 August 1858 in Edinburgh, Scotland – the daughter of Thomas Dagger, a shipwright, and Margaret Phillips. (See 142 Margret Dagger)

Her father appears to have arrived in 1862 on the “Grasmere”, probably working his passage, and Eliza arrived in 1863 with her mother and sister in 1863 on the “Nelson”.

They settled in Dunedin where Eliza married William Henry Adams, a bookbinder, on 7 March 1883 - they had one son.

When Eliza signed the suffrage petition they were living in Duddingstone, North East Valley.

Eliza died on 9 June 1944 and William died in 1948 – they are buried together in the Northern 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/           

Scotlands People  https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

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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David Adams

Posted: 10 Oct 2011

This is possibly Mrs William Henry Adams, Eliza Johnston Dagger. Eliza was the daughter of Robert Dagger and she and her mother came to NZ on the ship 'Nelson' in 1863 from Edinburgh. Eliza married William Henry Adams (who had come to NZ in 1865 on the Thracian) on the 7th March 1883. William Henry Adams later became editor of the Otago Daily Times and died in 1948. Eliza died in 1944 and both are buried in the Northern Cemetery of Dunedin. They were the parents of Thomas Dagger Adams, noted Professor of Classics at the University of Otago.