Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Euphemia Anderson was born about 1865 in Glasgow, Scotland – the daughter of James Anderson.
She emigrated to Otago and married James Ferguson, a carpenter, on 5 June 1885 at Waihola Park in South Otago.
They had five children and when Euphemia signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Henley on the Taieri Plain south of Dunedin.
They moved to Milton in 1898.
James died in Dunedin in 1925 and Euphemia died in Wellington on 5 January 1947.
They are buried together in the Milton/Fairfax 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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