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Rachael Jane Drummond

Signed family name
Drummond
Signed given name
Rachael Jane
Given address
Pigroot
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Dunback
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Rachael Jane Drummond was born in 1871 in New Zealand – the daughter of James Duncan Drummond, a carpenter, and Rachel Crawford. 

When Rachael signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family at Dunback on the 'Pigroot' route to Central Otago. 

She married John McGregor on 20 April 1893 and they had six children and lived at Waikouaiti, north of Dunedin. 

Rachael died on 23 January 1939 in Auckland and John died in 1953 – they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay 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/          

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.