Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Edmond McSweeney was born about 1865 in Culin, County Cork, Ireland.
She emigrated to New Zealand in the late 1870s and married Frederick William Wedlake, a miner, in 1886.
They had two children and when Mary signed the suffrage petition they were living in Forth St, Dunedin.
Frederick died at their home in 1911 and Mary died 17 May 1928, they are buried in the family grave in the Northern 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
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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