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Susan P. Runciman

Signed family name
Runciman
Signed given name
Susan P.
Given address
Cargill Road
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
South Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Location confirmed 1893 Electoral Roll.

Biographical information provided by Flora Feltham for the He Tohu exhibition:

Susan Propert Runciman arrived in New Zealand from Ireland with her four daughters in 1883. They were joining their husband and father, William Edward Runciman, in Timaru. Two more daughters and a son would be born in New Zealand. Susan, William and their children moved to Dunedin in the late 1880s, where Susan died in 1908, aged 58. She is buried in Dunedin’s historic Northern Cemetery. Susan’s eldest daughter Jane Elizabeth Runciman became a renowned, tireless social reformer and trade unionist from within the Dunedin Tailoresses’ Union.

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