Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Marie Boyes was born in 1850 in New Zealand — the daughter of Andrew Boyes, a tailor, and Isabella Matheson.
She married David Gillespie Ford, a draper, in 1880 and they had five children.
When Isabella signed the suffrage petition the family were living in King St, Roslyn.
They moved to Hastings in the early 1900s where David started another draper’s shop.
Isabella died at her home 'Cranmore', Hastings on 16 March 1936 and David died in 1938.
They are buried together in the Havelock North 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
Hastings District Council http://cemeterybase.hdc.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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