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Elizabeth Bett

Signed family name
Bett
Signed given name
Elizabeth
Given address
Wanganui
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Whanganui
City/Region
Whanganui
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Elizabeth Nicholl Bett was born in 1868 in Whanganui, the daughter of John Spence Bett, a builder, and Mary Smith.

See 467 Mary Bett

When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Campbell St, Whanganui, working as a dressmaker.

She died at Whanganui on April 3rd 1942, and is buried in the Heads Road Old Public Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

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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.