Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Sarah Dick was born about 1849 in Scotland.
She emigrated to New Zealand about 1867 and she married Francis Tubman, a punt operator, on 6 December 1867 in Dunedin.
They had seven children and lived in Roxburgh and Beaumont before moving to Owaka where they had a farm and where Sarah signed the suffrage petition.
In the 1910s they retired to Balclutha where Francis died in 1913.
Sarah died on 16 March 1939 at her sons’ home in Papatowai near Owaka.
They are buried with one of their daughters in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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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