Maker: Stephanie Butler

Panel number: 412

Petition sheet number: 500

Person honouring: Alice Galloway

Relationship to maker: Great-aunt – granddad’s sister

Alice Galloway was born in Pauatahanui on 12 September 1872. She was one of eight children born to Alice Goldfinch and John Galloway who had married at Old St Pauls, Wellington in 1870, and lived on the farm at Coppermine Road, Woodville.

John’s parents, David and Ann Galloway, had arrived from Scotland on the Bengal Merchant in 1840 and settled in Pauatahanui.  

Alice was the second child, with her older brother James (Jim) being born in 1871. Mary Ann, her only sister followed in 1874, then five more brothers; the youngest was John Douglas in 1883.

Alice and her sister-in-law Elizabeth, known as Lizzy, signed the suffrage petition in Woodville in 1893.

Alice married Alfred George Monk in 1894 and lived in rural Maharahara, Dannevirke. They had three children: John Leslie Monk, born in 1894 at Kaikora (original name for Otane) – he was killed while serving in Gallipoli in 1915. Vera Ella Monk was born in 1896 and Alan Vincent Monk in 1900. 

Alice died after a house fire in 1901. She was posthumously awarded the Royal Humane Award for saving her three children. Alfred her husband had been away building a new house for the family in Ngapaeruru. 

Alice was buried in the Dannevirke Settlers Cemetery.

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