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Susan Anderson

Signed family name
Anderson
Signed given name
Susan
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Timaru
City/Region
South Canterbury
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Susan Anderson was born about 1866 in Ireland.

In 1891 she was living with her sister Grace and widowed mother Jane in Glasgow, Scotland.

See 274 Grace Anderson

Soon after this the sisters emigrated to New Zealand where their elder sister Agnes was living.

When they signed the suffrage petition the sisters were living in Timaru, working as a boot machinist and a boot fitter.

Susan died on September 4th 1946 and Grace died on December 7th 1954. They are buried together in the Timaru Cemetery.

Sources

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