Signed family name
Smith
Signed given name
Mary Bella
Given address
Clyde Street
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Bella Smith was born about 1848 in Renfrewshire, Scotland – the daughter of Captain Neil Smith, a mariner, and Rebecca Black.
She came to New Zealand with her family in 1861 on the Pladda and they settled in Dunedin.
Mary did not marry and when she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her widowed father in Clyde Street.
She died on 7 June 1923 and is buried with her parents in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
