Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Wilson was born about 1849 in Scotland.
She came to New Zealand in the mid 1880s with her son David and she married Nils Jepson, a widower on 2 March 1885 in the Waihola Parish south of Dunedin.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition she was living in Dundas St, Dunedin working as a tailoress.
Nils died in 1915 and Mary died at her home on 26 November 1916, they are buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/