Signed family name
Thomson
Signed given name
Mary G.
Given address
Moray Place Dunedin
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Gowan Thomson was born in New Zealand in 1866 — the daughter of Andrew Thomson, the owner of a ships chandlery and the builder of first freezing works in Otago, and Isabella Dalgliesh.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition she was living in Moray Place, Dunedin working in an office.
She did not marry and she died at her sister’s home in Port Chalmers on 1 December 1933.
She is buried in the Port Chalmers Old 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