Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Lonney was born about 1848 in County Leitrim, Ireland.
She came to New Zealand and she married William Brown McPhee, a farmer, in 1866.
They had six children and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Owaka.
William died in 1914 at their daughter’s home in Timaru and Elizabeth died on 14 October 1916 in Owaka.
They are both buried in the Owaka 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
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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