Originally transcribed as 99 Naomi McKay
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Naomi Young was born about 1848 in Scotland and when she emigrated to Otago in 1876 on the Dunedin, her occupation was given as teacher.
She was appointed to teaching jobs in Queenstown and Milton before she resigned prior to her marriage.
She married George MacKay, a farmer, on 26 July 1878 in Dunedin. They had four children, one who appears to have died in infancy.
They lived for a time in Mercury Bay in the North Island where Naomi again worked as a teacher. She resigned her post in 1886 and the family moved to Dunedin shortly afterwards.
When she signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Brook St, Dunedin.
Naomi died at her home on 24 September 1904 and George died in 1917, they are buried in the family grave 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