Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Lillias/Lily Fraser was born on 18 August 1863 in Walls and Sandness in the Shetland Islands – the daughter of Walter Fraser, a fisherman and small crofter, and Lillias Jamieson.
Her mother died in 1868 and her father re-married the following year. (See 70 Elspeth Fraser)
In the 1870s the family emigrated to New Zealand and they settled in Dunedin.
Lily married George Fraser, a mariner, in 1889 and they had two sons.
When Lily signed the suffrage petition they were living in Duncan St, Dunedin.
George died in 1935 and Lily died on 30 September 1946 – they are buried with their son 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
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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