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Lizzie McClune

Signed family name
McClune
Signed given name
Lizzie
Given address
Waikouaiti
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Waikouaiti
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) McClune was born on April 4th 1871 in Donaghadee, County Down, Ireland, the daughter of Joseph McClune and Margaret Stoupe.

See 91 M McClune

She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1874 on the Tweed. They settled in Waikouaiti where Lizzie signed the suffrage petition.

Lizzie died at the family home on September 27th 1908. She is buried in the family grave in the Waikouaiti Cemetery.

Sources

DCC Cemetery Records

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.