Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Susanna/Susan Smith was born about 1847 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
In 1851 she was living with Abraham Scott, a timber dealer and merchant, and his wife Martha in Leeds.
She appears to have taken their name and she came to New Zealand in the early 1860s.
Susan married John Bartlett Green, a sawmiller and farmer, in 1864 in Dunedin and they had two children, one who died in childhood.
They lived on Stewart Island for a time before moving to the Owaka district in 1866.
When Susan signed the suffrage petition they were living on their farm 'Pleasant Grove' in the Owaka Valley.
John died in 1908 and after this Susan moved to Dunedin where she died on 26 February 1924.
They are buried in the Owaka Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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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