Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Wood Henderson was born on 21 September 1874 in Clackmannan, Scotland – the daughter of Robert John Wood Henderson and Catherine Menzies Millar.
Shortly after her birth she emigrated to Otago with her parents - they were to have 11 more children.
When she signed the suffrage petition Mary was living with her parents in St Anns Rd, Mornington, Dunedin.
She married William Stewart Smaill, a farmer, in 1906. They lived at first in Kaitangata then moved to Caversham in Dunedin where William worked as a contractor. They had three sons.
William died in 1947 and Mary died on 5 April 1959.
They are buried together in the Andersons Bay 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