Originally transcribed as M Falcolner
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary McNaught McLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 9 April 1842 – the daughter of Robert McLean, a joiner, and Margaret White.
She married James Falconer, also a joiner, in Glasgow on 29 June 1866.
They had nine children and emigrated to Otago about 1885.
The family settled in Dunedin and when Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in North Taieri Rd, Kirkland Hill, Roslyn.
James died at his home in 1908 and Mary died on 5 December 1911. They are buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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