Biographical information provided by Helen Smith for the He Tohu exhibition:
Clementine McDonnell was born in 1847, the fourth daughter of Captain Thomas McDonnell of the Royal Navy, an early Hokianga settler. Clementine married Charles Holmes Borlase, a solicitor, in 1869 in Whanganui. Charles was an Ensign in the Colonial Militia. They had Charles Howard (1870-), Emma Clemintine (1871-), William Rawoon (1874-), Edward Norris (1875-), Norah Charlotte (1877-), George Norton (1878-), Florence Mary (1881-), Anna Kathleen (1884-) and Mary Wilmot (1887-). Widowed in 1903, Clementine moved from Whanganui to Auckland and died there in 1919.
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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