Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sarah Hogg was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of Thomas Hogg, a carter, and Mary Mooney. (See 60 Mary Hogg)
When Sarah signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Castle St, Dunedin.
She married George Robert Farrell, a seaman, in 1893 and they had a daughter the same year.
George disappears from the records after this time, Sarah continued to live at Castle Street in the late 1890s but she also disappears from sight.
Their daughter died in Palmerston, North Otago in 1919, she is buried with her grandparents in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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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