Signed family name
Sutherland
Signed given name
Robena
Given address
Waitepeka
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Robena Sutherland was born about 1874 in South Otago – the daughter of William Sutherland, a farmer, and Catherine Miller.
When Robena signed the suffrage petition she was living in Waitepeka, South Otago.
She married Albert Walter Findlater on 4 August 1915 in Balclutha – they had no children.
Walter died in France during the First World War in 1918.
Robena lived in Balclutha and Invercargill then in Dunedin where she died on 6 April 1961, she is buried in the Balclutha Old Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz