Orginally transcribed as A C Hall
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sarah Cowan Mathieson was born about 1865 in New Zealand – the daughter of Alexander Mathieson, a farmer, and Sarah Keltie Dumbrake Liddle.
She married Alfred James Aloysius Hall, a farmer, on 19 October 1887 at her parent’s home, 'Everton House' in Andersons Bay, Dunedin.
They had six children and when Sarah signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Andersons Bay.
They later moved to Clinton in South Otago before retiring to Dunedin where Alfred died in 1922.
Sarah died on 28 July 1956, 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
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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