Surname:
Cook
Given names:
Edith
Given address:
Teacher
Notes:
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Edith Mary Cook was born in 1868 in Dunedin – the daughter of Edward Cook, a solicitor’s clerk, and Mary Georgiana Armstrong.
Edith grew up in Dunedin but after her father’s death in 1890 she spent time in Palmerton.
When she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her widowed mother in Palmerston working as a music teacher.
They moved back to Dunedin for a time before her mother died in Christchurch in 1900.
Edith died in Wellington on November 21st 1901. She is buried with her mother in the Linwood Cemetery, Christchurch.
Sources
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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