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Sophia I. Price

Signed family name
Price
Signed given name
Sophia I.
Given address
McAndrew Rd South Dunedin
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
South Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Originally transcribed as Sophia T. Price

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Sophia Isabella Norton was born in 1856 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England – the daughter of Henry Dawson Norton, a carpenter, and Sarah Elizabeth Ann Scales.

She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1860 on the William Miles.

Sophia married Robert William Price, a plumber, in 1881 - they had four sons and one daughter.

When she signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Macandrew Rd, South Dunedin.

Robert died in 1932 and Sophia died on 9 August 1949, they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search

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

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.