Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Elizabeth Marshall was born in 1852 in Chatham, Kent, England – the daughter of John Marshall, a smith, and Hannah Carpenter. (See 38 Hannah Marshall)
Mary emigrated to New Zealand about 1883 and she married James Hall, a watchman, in 1884.
Their only child was born in 1888 – he died in 1893, aged five years at their home in McGlashan St, South Dunedin.
It was around this time that Mary signed the suffrage petition and a short time after Mary and James adopted a son in who was born in 1895.
Mary died on 21 February 1933 and James died in 1936, they are buried together in the Southern 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
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/