Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Emily Eliza Carey was born about 1857 in Tasmania – the daughter of Patrick Carey and Clarissa Turner.
She came to New Zealand with her parents in the early 1860s and they were the first family to settle in St Kilda in Dunedin.
They lived in a tent for nearly a year before building the first house in the borough.
Emily had a son in 1878 and when she signed the suffrage petition she was the wife of John Harding Welsh, a commercial traveller, although no marriage record can be found.
When Emily signed the suffrage petition in Forth Place she was living in, nearby, Regent Road.
John died at their home in 1897 – he is buried in the Southern Cemetery.
Emily married Robert James Stuart, a compositor and widower, in 1900 – she died on 6 August 1921 and is also buried in the Southern Cemetery.
Robert died in 1929 – he is buried in the Southern Cemetery with his first wife.
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
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
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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