Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Janet Morgan Chalmers was born in 1871 at Milburn, South Otago – the daughter of William Chalmers, a blacksmith, and Janet Gray. (See 139 Mrs W Chalmers)
Janet signed the suffrage petition in Milburn.
She married Lachlan McLean, a farmer, on 11 November 1896 at her parents’ home, the ceremony was followed by a dance in a neighbour’s barn and a supper.
They had two daughters and lived on the Taieri Plain.
Lachlan died at their home at North Taieri in 1925 and Janet died on 4 April 1939 in Dunedin, they are buried together in the East Taieri 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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