Also signed as 234 Christine Gordon
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Christina Gilchrist was born about 1815 in Sutherlandshire, Scotland.
She married George Gordon, a shepherd, on 6 December 1835 in Kildonan, Bute and they had seven children before they emigrated to New Zealand on the Strathallan arriving in January 1859. They lived, at first, at Pareora Station before moving to Waimate in the mid-1860s.
George died in 1890 and when Christina signed the suffrage petition she was still in Waimate.
Christina died on 4 February 1899 – she is buried with George in the Waimate Old Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.nz
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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