Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sarah Black was born about 1829 in Eyemouth, Berwickshire, Scotland – the daughter of Ninian Jaffery Black and Jane Crawford.
She appears to have married Charles Redpath, a baker, about 1862 and they had two daughters in Berwickshire before moving to Renfrewshire by 1869 when their eldest daughter died.
Sarah and Charles, with their daughter Isabella, (See 110 Mrs McDonald) emigrated to Canterbury in 1874 on the Canterbury and, by the 1880s, they had settled in Clinton in South Otago where Sarah signed the suffrage petition.
Sarah died at Clinton on 6 October 1894 and Charles re-married the following year at the age of 61.
His new bride was a widow with five children and they had a further three children together.
Charles died in 1904, he is buried with Sarah in the Clinton Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Balclutha Geneaology Society http://www.balcluthagenealogy.org.nz/
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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