Grace Mair

Signed family name

Mair

Signed given name

Grace

Given address

Tweed Street

Sheet number

359

Town/Suburb

Invercargill

City/Region

Southland

Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Grace Napier was born about 1847 in Glasgow, Scotland – the daughter of Dugald Napier, a carter, and Grace Geddes.

She emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1863 on the “Mataura” and they settled in Otago.

Grace married Matthew Mair, a contractor, on 3 August 1866 in the Woodlands parish in Southland.

They settled in Invercargill and they had 12 children, four who died in infancy.

When Grace signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Tweed St, Invercargill.

Her sister also signed ( See 175 Mrs Isabella Eckhoff)

Matthew died in 1911 and Grace died on 2 April 1915 – Grace was travelling to Timaru with her daughter on the train when she “complained of being unwell, and passed away soon after”. She is buried with Matthew in the family grave in the Invercargill Eastern Cemetery.