Signed family name
Usherwood
Signed given name
Mary Ann
Given address
Forbury Rd St Clair
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ann Yates was born about 1843 in Newington, Surrey, England.
She married Henry James Usherwood, a jeweller’s assistant, in 1866 and they had seven children.
The family emigrated to Otago in 1883 on the Tongariro and they settled in Dunedin.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Forbury Rd, St Clair.
Henry died in 1914 and Mary died on 7 May 1936, they are buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz