Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Snow Walker was born in 1869 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Snow Walker, a carpenter, and Jean McDowall.
When she signed the suffrage petition Mary was living with her widowed father in Outram, West Taieri.
She married William Houston, a farmer, on 14 March 1894 in Dunedin.
They do not appear to have had any children & they lived in Taranaki before moving to Auckland where William worked as a grocer.
Mary died on 1 May 1948 and William died the following year, they are buried together in the Waikaraka Cemetery, Auckland.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Auckland Council https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/cemeteries