Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jane Douglas Dickson was born about 1850.
She married Isaac McFarlane, a bootmaker from Blue Spur near Lawrence, on 9 July 1884 at Knox Church, Dunedin.
They had no children and lived at Blue Spur where Jane signed the suffrage petition.
Isaac died in 1906 leaving 'a widow, a lady of wide reading and varied accomplishments'.
Jane died at Lawrence on 6 August 1910, they are buried together in the Lawrence Cemetery.
Sources
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Interment.net http://www.interment.net/data/nz/otago/lawrence
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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