Rebecca was the wife of Samuel Dawick, proprietor of Dawick's Buffet, the temperance hotel and restaurant in Rangitikei Street. The Dawicks were amongst the first ratepayers of the Borough of Palmerston North in 1877. They had two sons, William and Edward.
Rebecca was one of approximately 523 Palmerston North women who signed the Suffrage petition, submitted to Parliament in 1893.
