Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Mary Lamb was born about 1829 in Greenlaw, Berwickshire, Scotland – the daughter of Thomas Lamb, a merchant tailor, and Christian Biggar.
She appears to have married Thomas Harrison, a tailor from Durham, England around 1852 – where is uncertain.
They had two sons in Stockton on Tees, Durham before moving back to Berwickshire where their next eight children were born, one of these children died in infancy.
In 1883 Mary and Thomas accompanied by five of their children emigrated to Otago on the Wellington.
They lived at first in Port Chalmers before moving to Dunedin where Thomas died in 1889.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition she was living with her daughter Anna (See 146 Anna Mary Harrison) in North East Valley.
She died on 13 November 1919 at her daughter’s home in Waipahi – she is buried with Thomas in the Port Chalmers 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
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk