Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ann Fulton Leitch was born about 1839 in Lochgilphead, Argyll, Scotland – the daughter of James Leitch, a smith, and Elizabeth.
She married John Hall, a stonemason, on 28 August 1863 in Lochgilphead and soon after they emigrated to Otago.
They had nine children, three of who died in infancy, and when Mary Ann signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Castle St, Dunedin.
John died in 1904 and Mary Ann died on 14 April 1916, 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
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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