Signed family name
Watt
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
Cutten St South D.
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Janet/Jeanie Hunter was born about 1834 in Scotland, she emigrated to New Zealand about 1880.
Janet married David Watt, a blacksmith and widower, in 1887 and when Janet signed the suffrage petition they were living in Cutten St, South Dunedin.
Janet died at her home on 2 April 1893, she is buried in the Southern Cemetery with David’s first wife.
David died in 1901 in Gisborne, he is buried in the Makaraka Cemetery.
Sources
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Gisborne District Council https://cemeterysearch.gdc.govt.nz/