Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Ann Fitt was born in Queenstown in 1864 – the daughter of Frederick Fitt and Elizabeth Ann Davidson.
Elizabeth’s daughter Hattie/Ettie was born in 1881 and she married Robert Elliot on 20 April 1883 in Queenstown.
They had eight children and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition they were living in Glenorchy, at the head of Lake Wakatipu, where Robert worked as a fencer, miner and small farmer.
In the 1900s Elizabeth and Robert retired to Dunedin where Robert died in 1918.
Elizabeth died on 3 August 1958 at Ross Home, Dunedin, she is buried with Robert in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
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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