Signed family name
Heaps
Signed given name
Susan
Given address
Not given on sheet
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Susan/Susannah Gunter was born in 1867 in London – the daughter of Richard Gunter, a paper stainer, and Matilda Hurlock.
She emigrated to New Zealand in the 1880s and married Joseph Priestly Heaps, a farmer, in 1890.
They had seven children and lived in Purekiriki in the Owaka Valley where Susan signed the suffrage petition.
Susan died on 9 November 1933 at Balclutha and Joseph died in Roxburgh in 1939, they are both buried in the Balclutha Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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/