Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Murray was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of James Murray, a farmer, and Agnes McKay. (See 88 A Murray)
When Mary signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family at Nugget Bay.
She married William McDowall Carrick, a farmer, on 28 May 1896 in Dunedin and they had a daughter in 1901.
William died at their home at Port Molyneux in 1923 and Mary died at her sister’s home in Dunedin on 1 December 1930.
They are buried together in the Port Molyneux Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/