Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sarah Housley was born on 18 July 1827 in Belper, Derbyshire, England – the daughter of John Housley, an engine fitter, and Mary.
She married Samuel Taylor, a labourer at an iron works, on 18 November 1851 in Pentrich, Derbyshire.
They had five sons, two who died in infancy, before the family emigrated to Otago in 1876 on the Dunedin.
They leased a farm at Riverside near Port Molyneux which they bought in the 1880s and where Sarah signed the suffrage petition.
Sarah died at her home on 7 September 1896 and Samuel died in 1898 – they are buried together in the Port Molyneux 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
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/