Also signed as 157 M A Gunn
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ann Gunn was born in 1867 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Gunn and Elizabeth French.
When she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Russell St, Dunedin with her family working as a bootfitter.
She married William Main Bain, a linesman, in 1900 and they had three children.
William died in 1951 and Mary Ann died on 9 August 1958.
They were both cremated – William’s ashes were scattered and Mary Ann’s ashes were interred in the Gunn 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
