Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ann Mason was born about 1855 in Leeds, Yorkshire.
She emigrated to Otago in 1880 on the Canterbury and she married Thomas Newell, a gardener, in 1882.
They had two children and when Mary signed the suffrage petition they were living in Andersons Bay, Dunedin.
Thomas died in 1922 and Mary died at her home on 25 February 1937 – they are buried together in the Andersons Bay 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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