Sarah Frances Monro

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Monro

Signed given name

Sarah Frances

Given address

Rangiora

Sheet number

240

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Rangiora

City/Region

Canterbury

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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Belinda Carter Posted: 30 Dec 2017

Sarah Frances Monro was my great grandmother. She was born in New Zealand in 1856 to William Cockerill Beswick and Elizabeth (nee Whitwell). She married Patrick Robertson Monro in Timaru in 1883. He was a Presbyterian Minister at the time of the suffrage petition, based in Rangiora, and fairly active in the cause of temperance/abolition. Unfortunately, less than five years after signing this her husband died (while out cycling) and she brought up three young sons in Christchurch.

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Belinda Carter Posted: 19 Sep 2018

Further my earlier comment, I found out that Sarah's husband (my great grandfather) edited The Prohibitionist in the 1890s, not sure of start date yet (he died in March 1897), which hosted a page that Kate Sheppard edited.

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