Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Latimer Kyle was born about 1845 in Dublin, Ireland.
She married James Anthony Mills in New Zealand in 1864.
They had three children before a warrant was issued for James in 1876 for deserting his wife and children.
James was described as 'an Englishman, a painter, 31 years of age...fond of singing at low concert-rooms, composes local songs.'
The warrant was cancelled three months later, presumably James had returned home.
A further five children were born over the next 12 years – James appears to have left the family after that time and when Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition she was living in Grosvenor St, Kensington.
Elizabeth died on 28 June 1927, she is buried in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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
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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