Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Rebecca Lumb was born in 1864 in New Zealand – the daughter of George Lumb, a shipping agent, and Agnes Gilbert.
She married Charles Alfred Beal, a photographer, on 13 March 1889 in Dunedin.
They had no children and when Rebecca signed the suffrage petition they were living in St David St, Dunedin.
Rebecca died on 25 August 1927 and Charles died in 1931, they are buried together 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
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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