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Mrs Cunningham

Signed family name
Cunningham
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
Palmerston
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Palmerston
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Mary Burns was born about 1842.

She married John Millar Cunningham, a baker, on May 11th 1863 in Otago.

They had 12 children, 2 who died in infancy. When Mary signed the suffrage petition they were living in Palmerston.

See 78 M G Cunningham

John died at their daughter’s home in Dunedin in 1894. Mary died at her home in Palmerston on December 27th 1904.

They are buried in the Palmerston Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Waitaki District Council Cemeteries

Presbyterian Research Centre

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.