Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Euphemia Jaap was born on 2 March 1839 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter of Alexander Jaap, a coal miner, and Agnes Arbuckle.
She emigrated to Otago in the early 1860s and married Robert Wilson, a baker, on 16 November 1865.
They had seven children and when Euphemia signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Main Rd, South Dunedin.
Robert died suddenly in 1900 while at work & Euphemia died on 25 August the following year.
They are buried in the family grave in the Southern 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/
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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