Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ann Henderson was born in 1866 in New Zealand – the daughter of Allan Henderson, a bricklayer, and Mary Glenn.
She married Ralph Grey Porter, a storeman, on 10 December 1884 at her sister’s home in Opoho, Dunedin.
They had two daughters and when Ann signed the suffrage petition they were living in Opoho and Ralph was running a grocery and bottle store.
In 1900 they moved to Glenavy where they ran the Glencoe Hotel.
Four years later they moved to Timaru then to Auckland where Ann died on 16 November 1920 – she is buried in the O’Neill’s Point Cemetery.
Ralph re-married two years later – he died in 1938 and is also buried in the O’Neill’s Point 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/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/