Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Marie Vanderhoven was born about 1860.
In the 1880s she was teaching at the Reomoana 'Native School' near Port Molyneux and advertising her services as a piano and French teacher.
She married Robert Carrick, a farmer, on 31 August 1888 at the Reomoana schoolhouse and they had one daughter.
When Marie signed the suffrage petition they were living at Port Molyneux and she was still teaching at Reomoana.
Marie was appointed as head teacher at Ahuriri in 1902 then as sole teacher at Glenomaru.
She resigned in 1910 and Marie and Robert retired to Dunedin where Robert died in 1936 - he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Marie died on 29 June 1954, she is buried in the Waipawa Cemetery, Hawkes Bay.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/