Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Drumm was born in Victoria, Australia in 1857, the daughter of John Drumm, a farrier, and Jane Whelan.
The family came to Otago about 1865. Mary’s mother died in 1884, when the youngest child in the family would have been ten years old.
Mary, being the eldest daughter, presumably took over the role of child care and housekeeping.
Mary died at Council St, St Kilda on 14 March 1922. She is buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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
