Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Strachan was born about 1837 in Scotland. She arrived in Otago in 1862 on the Jura as an assisted immigrant and she married James Waugh, a farmer, on 5 November 1862 in the East Taieri parish.
After living for a short time in East Taieri the family farmed at Highcliff on the Otago Peninsula and were to have nine children.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition they were still living at Highcliff.
James died at their home in 1902 after which Mary went to live in Dunedin.
She died at her home on 9 August 1911 and is buried with James in the family grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
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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