Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Hannah Maria Slight was born in Bethnal Green, London, in 1839 – the daughter of Thomas Slight, a type founder, and Mary Ann Day.
Hannah married George Pitcher, a bootmaker, in London in 1860. They had six sons, one dying in infancy, before they boarded the Peter Denny in 1874 to travel to Otago. They had five more children in New Zealand.
The family lived in St Ann’s Rd in the Glen area of Dunedin. George died in the Dunedin Hospital in 1898 and Hannah died on 16 May 1913. They are buried together in the Northern 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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
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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