Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jessie Mary Rowe Forrest was born about 1839 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
She emigrated to New Zealand about 1858 and she married David McIntyre, a bullock driver, on 24 July 1860 in the Milton parish.
They had 10 children, at least one who died in infancy.
The family were living in Owaka when Jessie signed the suffrage petition.
In their later years they moved to Dunedin where Jessie died on 19 November 1917 and David died a month later, 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
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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