Emily Seideberg-McKinnon - Historic Cemeteries Conservation

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A Pioneer Jewish Community – Emily Seideberg 1873 -1968

Research Group – Overview of roles and tasks for data gathering

Roles and Tasks

Your group task is to find out as much as you can about Emily Siedeberg-McKinnon 1873 – 1968.

Your group roles include the following people. You need to choose or assign the following roles...

5A Researcher: The role of the researcher is to locate and gather information resources about your subject from websites and books. This will include biographies and other historical information.

5B Archivist: The role of the archivist is to locate original information resources (primary resources) about the subject. This will include a visit to the cemetery for photographs of personal information, printing out or taking notes from newspaper cuttings, and archived photos where these are available.

5C Journalist: The role of the journalist is to write a series of short narratives or paragraphs about the subject for publication using material located by the researcher and the archivist.

5D Editor/Producer : The role of the editor/producer is to gather cemetery data and to design the layout and create the end product.

Emily Seideberg-McKinnon 1873 - 1968

Portion of Northern

Cemetery Map showing the

Location of the

Siedeberg family grave

Emily Hancock Siedeberg-

McKinnon is buried with her parents in the Siedeberg family grave in the Northern

Cemetery in Dunedin. The plot can be located at Block 161

Plot 3. She is not mentioned on the headstone but is mentioned in the Northern

Cemetery burial register.

The Northern Cemetery map portion was sourced from Dunedin City Council: Location of Dunedin’s cemeteries http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/location-pdfs

Emily Seideberg 1873 - 1968

For the Archivist

A YOUNG LADY'S HONORS. Wanganui

Herald, 7 February 1896, Page 4

AN INTERESTING CASE. Otago Witness,

Issue 1943, 21 May 1891, Page 23

A LADY DOCTOR. Wanganui Herald, 1

August 1905, Page 5

Emily Seideberg 1873 - 1968

For the Archivist

Otago Witness, Issue 2691, 11 October 1905, Page 41

ST. HELEN'S MATERNITY HOSPITAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2681, 2 August

1905, Page 33

Emily Seideberg 1873 - 1968

For the Archivist

Otago Witness, 22 May 1907 Page 54

Otago Witness, 5 December 1900, Page 24

Emily Seideberg 1873 - 1968

For the Researcher

Websites

Emily Siedeberg 1873 – 1968 http://www.southernheritage.org.nz/northerncemetery/application/dynamic/bio.cfm?BurialID=43

148

All newspaper clippings used in this resource were obtained from Papers

Past URL http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/

Emily Hancock Siedeberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Hancock_Siedeberg

Siedeberg, Emily Hancock 1873 – 1968 Doctor, anesthetist, hospital superintendent http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=3S16

Online Photos are available from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and other viewable photos are available at the Settlers Museum.

Books

Rosenthal, Odeda (1988) Not Strictly Kosher: Pioneer Jews in New Zealand.

Wainscott New

York, Starchand Press.

Williams, Tony. (2006). 101 ingenious Kiwis: How New Zealanders changed the world.

Auckland New Zealand, Reed.

Sargison, Patricia A. (1993) Notable women in New Zealand health = Te hauora ki Aotearoa : ona wahine rongonui Auckland.

Longman Paul

IMS (NZ). (1990). Women doctors in New Zealand: An historical perspective, 1921-1986.

Auckland.

Thompson, J. (Ed). (1998). Southern People: A dictionary of Otago and Southland Biography.

Emily Seideberg McKinnon pp 454 – 455. Longacre Press in association with Dunedin City

Council.

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