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Susan Bruce

Signed family name
Bruce
Signed given name
Susan
Given address
Mornington
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Mornington
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Susan Gallagher was born about 1860 in Dublin, Ireland.

She emigrated to Otago in 1879 on the Westland and she married Robert Bruce, a carpenter, in 1881.

They had eight children, two who died in infancy, and when Susan signed the suffrage petition they were living in Maryhill Terrace, Mornington, Dunedin.

Susan died on 26 July 1924 and Robert died ten years later at Balclutha. They are buried together in the Southern 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

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.