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V. M. Thompson

Signed family name
Thompson
Signed given name
V. M.
Given address
Mornington
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Mornington
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Victoria Maria Dyer was born in 1863 in New Zealand, the daughter of William John Dyer and Anne Maria Redmayne.

She married John Thompson, a commercial traveller, in 1889. They had two children.

When Victoria signed the suffrage petition they were living in Frederick St, Mornington in Dunedin.

John died in Dunedin in 1938 and Victoria died on June 11th 1940 at Orokonui Home, near Dunedin. They are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

DCC Cemetery Records

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

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