Also signed as 155 Mrs Milward
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Gertrude Mary Tyrrell was born in 1861 in London, England – the daughter of Thomas Tyrrell, a baker, and Emma Lydia Thomas. (See 163 E L Tyrrell)
She emigrated to Otago on the Canterbury with her family in 1880 and they settled in Dunedin.
She married William Thomas Milward, a signwriter, in 1883 and they had five children.
When Gertrude signed the sufffrage petition the family were living at Calton, North East Valley.
William died in 1927 and Gertrude died on 1 October 1941, they are buried together 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
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz