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Mary Hambleton

Signed family name
Hambleton
Signed given name
Mary
Given address
Maria St South Dunedin
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
South Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Mary Jane Hambleton, known as Polly, was born in 1865 in New Zealand – the daughter of William Hambleton, a joiner, and Sarah Jane Sinkinson.

When Mary signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Maria St, South Dunedin.

She did not marry and she died on 19 January 1941. She is buried in the family grave 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

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.