Signed family name
Lyders
Signed given name
M. J.
Given address
Mornington
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Marie Johane Jenson was born about 1861 in Denmark.
She came to New Zealand where she married Captain Peter Andrew Lyders, a master mariner also from Denmark, on August 7th 1878 in Dunedin.
They had 7 children, the eldest who died in infancy, and when Marie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Maryhill Terrace, Mornington.
Peter gave up the sea for a mining venture in the 1890s before becoming a building contractor.
He died in 1924 & Marie died at her home on March 5th 1926. They are buried in the Southern Cemetery.