Originally transcribed as Jessee Pearson
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jessie Murray Black was born on 20 May 1857 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland – the daughter of David Black, a labourer, and Jessie Wilson.
She came to New Zealand in the mid 1880s and she married John Pearson, an engine driver, on 6 July 1888 at Mt Pleasant, Lawrence.
They had four children and when Jessie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Clinton in South Otago.
After a few years in Oamaru the family moved to Dunedin where Jessie died on 17 April 1919 and John died in 1930.
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
