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Sarah Jamieson

Signed family name
Jamieson
Signed given name
Sarah
Given address
Melbourne Street
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
South Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Sarah Jane Jamieson was born about 1857 in County Derry, Ireland – the daughter of Matilda Jamieson. (See 63 Matilda Jamieson)

She emigrated to Otago in 1878 on the Invercargill with her family and settled in Dunedin.

When Sarah signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Melbourne St, South Dunedin.

She died on 30 September 1903 at her brother’s home in South Dunedin and is buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.

Sources

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.