suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Dippie
Given names: 
Mary
Given address: 
George St
Sheet No: 56
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Mary Jane Dippie was born in New Zealand in 1863 – the daughter of Alexander Dippie, a carpenter, and Jane Ross. (See 56 Mrs Dippie)

When she signed the suffrage petition Mary was living with her family in George St, Dunedin.

She married Alexander Campbell, a stock agent, on 22 August 1894 at her parents’ house.

They had a daughter in July 1897 and Mary died on 24 August the same year. Her daughter died at the age of 6 in 1903, she is buried with her mother in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.

Alexander remarried in 1900 - he died in 1944 and is buried in the Milton Cemetery.

Sources

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

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

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

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