Notes provided by Helen Edwards, who has carried out extensive research on the women who signed Sheet 156, including mapping where they lived. Download pdf of this research here.
Mary Green [Mary Green, Roslyn] (No. 9)
Land designation: Allotment 8, Block 2, Township of Roslyn. Address: 34/36 Bruce Street. Age in 1893 unknown. Religious denomination unknown
Mary Green was married to Samuel Green, who was born in Ireland about 1828, and emigrated on the Jessie Readman in November 1871. They did not marry in New Zealand, and their children were born elsewhere. In 1875 they bought a house in Bruce Street, which burned down in 1881, but was fortunately covered by insurance. Samuel was Dog Registrar for the Roslyn Borough Council from 1877 until about 1885, and a tea dealer. His sudden death in March 1885, from a heart attack, occurred while he was labouring on the Fernhill branch railway line near Green Island. According to newspaper reports, his son-in-law, John Edward Shaw, was mine manager in the Fernhill Company. The account noted that ‘deceased was 57 years of age, and leaves a widow and family residing in Roslyn’. A further misfortune followed in 1897, when the Bruce Street house was the subject of a mortgagee sale. The Greens seem to have had no equity remaining in the property, and the vendor was Mary Davy or Davey, widow, of Dublin, Ireland, who had lent the Greens £100 in 1875. Mary and the family may have faced an uncertain future. She does not appear in any further directories.
Inquest. Otago Daily Times, 6 March 1885.