Signed family name
Geddes
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
Caversham
Notes
See also Caversham research databases
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ann Geddes was born about 1830 in Ireland.
She emigrated to New Zealand about 1880 with her husband Robert, a farmer, and their six children.
They settled in Caversham, Dunedin where Robert died in 1888.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition she was living in Maria St, Caversham.
She died at her home on 23 July 1895 and is buried with Robert 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