Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Nicholas Barron was born about 1848 in Kirkliston, Linlithgowshire, Scotland – the daughter of James Barron, a police constable, and Nicholas Thomson.
In December 1868 Nicholas, accompanied by her two brothers, boarded the Edward P Bouverie bound for Otago.
She stayed in Dunedin for a short time where she married William McLean, a carpenter, on 21 April 1870.
They then lived in Milton, where Nicholas signed the suffrage petition, and they had four children.
William died at their home in 1900 and Nicholas died on 14 October 1946, they are both buried in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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/