Signed family name
Aldridge
Signed given name
Mary
Given address
Greymouth
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Rule was born about 1830 in Lancashire, England.
She married John Dawson Tate, a furniture broker, in Whitehaven, Cumberland in 1863.
She came to New Zealand in the mid-1870s - what happened to John is unclear.
Mary married Thomas Aldridge, a widower, in 1886 and when she signed the suffrage petition they were living in Greymouth.
Thomas died in June 1898 and Mary died later that year on 29 November – they are both buried in the Karoro Cemetery, Greymouth.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz