suffrage_petition
Surname: 
MacKay
Given names: 
Naomi
Given address: 
Brook St
Sheet No: 99
Town/Suburb: 
North Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

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

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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