Katherine Wilson Malcolm was born in Liverpool, probably on 10 March 1847. Her parents Jemima Crawford Souter and Andrew Wilson Malcolm were Scots and moved from Liverpool to London and back to Scotland where she was educated. Christened Katherine, she was always known as Kate. Her parents Jemima Crawford Souter and Andrew Wilson Malcolm were Scots and moved from Liverpool to London and back to Scotland where she was educated. Christened Katherine, she was always known as Kate.
On 21 July 1871, when she was 24 years old, she married Walter Allen Sheppard who was a prosperous grocer and general merchant 12 years her senior. He had been a Christchurch City councillor in 1868. They had one son, Douglas, born in 1880.
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Kate Sheppard
No FicciónKate Sheppard is recognised as the leader of the fight to win the right for New Zealand women to vote. She and other pioneering women campaigned so effectively that in 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world to grant the...
