The following names are some of the identifiable signatures from the Ballarat District on the 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition, tabled in the Victorian Parliament in September 1891. The 1891 Petition and actual signatures (many are difficult to decipher) can be be viewed in a searchable database on the external website - 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition

There are 800+ names from the Ballarat area and the additional information column on the following pages is designed to identify and profile the women from the Ballarat district who signed the 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition.

This project is commencing in 2009 and these pages should be regarded as "work in progress". We are looking for additional names, information, identifications or corrections to the information recorded on the following pages regarding those who signed the 1891 petition from the Ballarat district. Links to Ballarat names on the petition commencing with...

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3 February 2010 by Daryl Povey