Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Georgina Buist was born in Forfarshire, Scotland about 1837, she married William Ford, a labourer from England in Forfarshire in 1879.
Shortly after they emigrated to Otago and settled in Dunedin.
They had two children and, when Georgina signed the suffrage petition, the family were living in Kirkland Hill.
She died at her home on 14 May 1895, William died in 1923 – they are buried together 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
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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