Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Jane/Jennie/Jean Finch was born in 1870 in Dunedin – the daughter of Samuel Finch, a carrier, and Elizabeth Strain. (See 164 Elizabeth Finch)
When she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in North East Valley, Dunedin working as a laundress.
Jennie married Daniel Jackson, a labourer, on 25 August 1909 at the North East Valley Presbyterian Church.
They lived in Waitahuna where Daniel died in January 1947 and Jennie died on 10 July 1947, they were both cremated and their ashes buried 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
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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