Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Emma McPhee was born in 1871 in New Zealand – the daughter of William McPhee, a farmer, and Elizabeth Lonney. (See 136 Elizabeth McPhee)
She grew up in Owaka where she signed the suffrage petition.
She married James Campbell Whitelaw, a farmer, on 25 October 1893 at her parent’s home in Owaka and they had three children, one who died in early childhood.
They moved to Timaru in the 1910s, before retiring to Dunedin where James died in May 1943 and Jane died on 21 July the same year.
They are buried together in the Andersons Bay 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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