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Mary Ann Hopkins

Signed family name
Hopkins
Signed given name
Mary Ann
Given address
Palmerston
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Palmerston
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Mary Ann Elsom was born about 1847.

After emigrating to New Zealand, she married William Henry Hopkins on September 27th 1876 in the Palmerston parish.

They had 4 children, 2 who died in infancy. When Mary signed the suffrage petition they were living in Palmerston.

Mary died on June 28th 1919 and William died in 1953. They are buried in the Palmerston Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Waitaki District Council Cemeteries

Presbyterian Research Centre

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.