Makers: Marlene Jackson and Raewyn Martin

Panel number: 257

Petition sheet number: 314

Person honouring: [Mrs] T. C. Richardson

Relationship to makers: Maternal relative

Charlotte Richardson was the seventh child and fourth daughter of Charlotte and Thomas Nicholas (two girls had died young, only Mary Ann and Charlotte surviving) was born 1845 in Eastbourne, Sussex.

Charlotte married Charles Thomas Richardson, a settler, in Wellington in 1872; they had at least six children between 1873 and 1884.

She was present at her mother’s death in 1891, having come up from Wellington to Bulls to nurse her when she became ill.

Charlotte and Charles were living in Thorndon’s Moore St when she signed the petition and enrolled to vote in 1893 and 1896.

Charlotte’s daughter, Jessie Mary, married Charles Guy Powles who later became Lieutenant Colonel of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles in World War 1. Jessie and Charles had three children, one of whom was Sir Guy Powles, New Zealand’s first Ombudsman and High Commissioner in Western Samoa.

Charlotte died in 1906 in Wellington, aged 60. She was buried at Karori cemetery, where Charles joined her in 1910.

Panel materials: Recycled fabric (t-shirt, pillow case) and thread.