Signed family name
Prosser
Signed given name
M J
Given address
Dunedin
Notes
Originally transcribed as Miss Prosser
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Jane Homan was born about 1835 in England – the daughter of Hannah Homan.
She emigrated to Otago in the 1860s with her mother and brother and settled in Dunedin.
Mary married John Prosser, a hotel keeper and widower with a daughter, on 21 May 1870 in the Glasgow Arms Hotel in Dunedin.
John died in 1875 – he is buried in the Hampden Cemetery.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition she was living in Hanover St, Dunedin.
She died on 9 August 1907 and is buried with her mother and brother in the Southern Cemetery.