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Mary Ann Alexander

Signed family name
Alexander
Signed given name
Mary Ann
Given address
Hanover St
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Mary Ann Hall was born about 1868 in Glasgow, Scotland.

She came to New Zealand about 1875 and she married William Scott Alexander, a sawmiller, in 1889.

They had two daughters and when Mary signed the suffrage petition they were living in Hanover St, Dunedin.

Mary died on 8 April 1929 and William died in 1948, they are buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search

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.