Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Young was born in 1854 in Dunedin – the daughter of William Young, a carpenter, and Jenny Smith Wilkie.
When she was about one year old her family moved to Warepa in South Otago.
Elizabeth married Peter Abernethy, a butcher, on 22 November 1883 – they had no children.
She signed the suffrage petition in Owaka – two of her sisters also signed the petition in Owaka (See 136 Margaret Todd and 136 Jane Dabinett)
Elizabeth died at Owaka on 26 August 1926 and Peter died in 1931, they are buried together in the Owaka Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
