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Rebecca Peattie

Signed family name
Peattie
Signed given name
Rebecca
Given address
Dundas Street
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
North Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Rebecca Julia Tudor was born in New Zealand in 1866 – the daughter of Jon William Tudor, a fishmonger, and Sarah Brooks. (See 64 Sarah Judd)

Her father died in 1882 and her mother re-married in 1885 to Luke Judd.

Rebecca married Edwin Peattie, a cab driver, in 1891 and they had three daughters.

When Rebecca signed the suffrage petition they were living in Dundas St, Dunedin.

They later moved to Cumberland St where Rebecca died on 17 March 1919.

Edwin re-married the following year and he died in 1936, they are buried with their daughter 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.