Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Frances Mary Dryburgh was born in 1854 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
She emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Janet Court and the following year she married Benjamin Morris.
They had seven children and, in the 1880s the family settled in the Owaka district where Frances signed the suffrage petition and Benjamin worked as a farmer.
In 1916 their home in the Owaka Valley, with post and telephone office attached, was destroyed by fire.
'Nothing was saved but the telephone instrument and a few small articles'.
Benjamin died in 1923 and Frances died at Owaka on 4 December 1927, 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
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
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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