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Mary E. Munro

Signed family name
Munro
Signed given name
Mary E.
Given address
St Davids St
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
North Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Mary Eliza Murchie was born on August 28th 1865 in Dunbartonshire, Scotland – the daughter of George Murchie and Eliza Smith.

She emigrated to Otago with her family as a young child and they settled in Dunedin.

Mary married Sinclair MacKay Munro, a storeman, on May 14th 1892 in Dunedin & they had 7 children.

When she signed the suffrage petition they were living in St David Street.

Sinclair died in 1938 & Mary died on August 7th 1947, they were both cremated.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

DCC Cemetery Records

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Presbyterian Research Centre

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