Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Helen McIntosh Moncur was born on 21 February 1861 in Edinburgh, Scotland – the daughter of William Moncur, an omnibus conductor, and Susan McIntosh. (See 136 Susan Moncur)
Helen emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Auckland with her family and they settled in Owaka.
he married Henry Tobin, a sawyer, in 1880 and they had six children, two who died in infancy.
The family lived in Owaka where Helen signed the suffrage petition before moving to Dunedin in the 1910s, where Henry worked as a bookseller.
Helen died at the Dunedin Hospital on 15 August 1918 and Henry died the following year, 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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