Address and town/suburb previously listed as Oamaru. New details confirmed by electoral roll.
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sarah Jane Tarrant was born in 1848 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England – the daughter of John Tarrant, a wheelwright, and Elizabeth Wright.
She married Charles Bishop on 20 June 1872 in Basingstoke and they had three sons before they emigrated to Otago in 1879 on the Taranaki.
They had a further six children after their arrival and when Sarah signed the suffrage petition they were living in Hampden in North Otago.
Charles died in 1906, he is buried in the Hampden Cemetery.
In later life Sarah went to live near her family in Hawera.
She later moved to Levin where she died on 4 October 1933, she is buried in the Old Levin Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
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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