Emma Mant

Helen Edwards Posted: 22 Jul 2018

Emma Monk is Emma Mant. Here is a letter, written about her after her death.
A NOBLE EXAMPLE.
TO THE EDITOR. - Sir,—Allow a few words of tribute to one who was “buried out of our sight” last Saturday, Mrs Emma Mant, of Clyde street, Roslyn. She was not a “ new woman,” nor a “woman up to date” in any way. … A model wife and mother, she “loved her husband and loved her children; guided her household,” guided it gently and wisely, and made it not a household as a home. …” The people with whom she worshipped showed their appreciation of her worth by electing her a “deaconess" among them, and she fulfilled their trust by doing good to all around her, as she had opportunity, ... and doing it with cheerfulness, and simplicity. It is believed that her last illness was caused by her ministry to some sick person, the nature of whose sickness was concealed from her. … But perhaps her two young daughters form her best epitaph—seeking to follow their mother’s wholesome home-loving example, even as she obeyed Christ. … I am, etc., S. J. Hancock, Roslyn.
Evening Star, 13 May, 1899, on Papers Past.

Emma Cooke was born in Gloucestershire in 1835. She was the daughter of non-conformists Joseph Cooke and Harriett Gore. In 1858 she married George Mant, a carpenter born in Wimbledon, and the family arrived in New Zealand about 1874. Emma Mant died on 25 May 1899, at the age of 63. She is buried in Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery with her husband.

Emma Mant signed Sheet 114. Elsie Mant, at the same address, signed Sheet 171. The letter-writer, Selina Julia Hancock, signed the petition on Sheet 98, and gathered signatures for four sheets.

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