Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Annie Pigott was born about 1863 in Galway, Ireland – the daughter of James Pigott and Joanna.
Her father appears to have died in the 1870s before Annie emigrated to Otago in 1876 on the Invercargill with her mother and six siblings.
When she signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Walker St, Dunedin and Annie was working as a dressmaker.
She married Peter Harrington, a widower and hotelkeeper from Clyde, on 17 May 1904 at St Joseph’s Cathedral, Dunedin.
They had a daughter the following year and lived at Clyde running the Commercial Hotel.
Peter died in 1915 and Annie took over the hotel licence for a short time before surrendering it the following year.
In 1925 Annie obtained the licence of the Ranfurly Hotel which she ran for a year.
She then moved to Dunedin where she died on 7 November 1932, she is buried with Peter 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