Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Eliza Dollery was born about 1833 in Wiltshire, England – the daughter of William Dollery, an agricultural labourer, and Anne Hiscock.
She emigrated to Victoria, Australia in 1864 on the Coldstream and she married Richard Lamb, a butcher, on 26 March 1867 in Ballarat.
They had three sons before Richard sailed for Otago in 1874 and Eliza followed with the children the following year.
The family settled in Dunedin where they had a butcher’s shop when Eliza signed the suffrage petition she was living in Waverley St, South Dunedin.
Richard died at their home in 1892 and Eliza died at the Benevolent Institute in Dunedin on 20 January 1907, they are buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au
BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au
Public Record Office Victoria https://prov.vic.gov.au
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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