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Mary C. McCalman

Signed family name
McCalman
Signed given name
Mary C.
Given address
Not given on sheet
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Purekireki
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Mary Cameron McCalman was born on 19 December 1870 in Kilmonivaig, Invernesshire, Scotland – the daughter of Donald McCalman, a salmon fisher, and Isabella Calder. (See 137 I McCalman)

She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1874 on the Nelson.

They settled at Tahatika in the Owaka Valley where they had a farm and where Mary signed the suffrage petition.

She married James Morrison Thomson, a farmer, on 7 November 1901 at Chalmers Church, Dunedin.

They had two children and lived in Owaka where James died in 1943 and Mary died on 10 August 1948, they are buried in the Owaka Cemetery.

Sources

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

Family Search https://www.familysearch.org

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/

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