Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Inglis was born on 16 December 1853 in Berwickshire, Scotland – the daughter of James Inglis and Ann Skeldon. (See 118 A Inglis)
She emigrated to Otago in 1860 on the Robert Henderson with her family and they settled near Milton.
Mary married William Paul, a farmer, on 28 May 1875 and they lived at Helensbrook, near Milton, where Mary signed the suffrage petition.
They had five children, one who died in infancy.
William died in 1914 and Mary died at her home on 6 November 1933, they are buried in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.nz
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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