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Mary Easton

Signed family name
Easton
Signed given name
Mary
Given address
Dunedin
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
No suburb given
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Also signed as 150 Mary Easton

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Mary Easton was born on 9 September 1871 in Stirlingshire, Scotland – the daughter of Nisbet Easton, a coal miner, and Isabella Campbell. (See 101 Isabella Easton)

She emigrated to Otago in 1882 on the Timaru with her family and they settled at Fairfield where Mary signed the suffrage petition.

Mary married Robert McAdam, a pastrycook, on 24 October 1898 at her home in Green Island and they had three daughters.

Robert died in 1935 and Mary died in Dunedin on 17 March 1952 – they are buried together in the Andersons Bay 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.