Elizabeth Maria Kirkby was born in 1875 in New Zealand – the daughter of Joseph William Kirkby, a labourer, and Maria Hale.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Grosvenor St, South Dunedin.
She married Thomas Middlemiss, a widower and farmer, in 1911.
They lived in Mabel Bush in Southland and, although they had no children together they did adopt a son.
Thomas died at their home in 1940 and Elizabeth died on 19 July 1958, they are buried in the family grave in the Invercargill Eastern 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
Invercargill City Council https://icc.govt.nz
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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