suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Hendry
Given names: 
Mary
Given address: 
Castle St
Sheet No: 51
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Mary Coats was born on 6 October 1838 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter of James Coats, an agricultural labourer, and Helen Nisbet.

She married Alexander Hendry, an engineer, in 1862 and shortly after the couple emigrated to New Zealand.

They had eight children, one who died in infancy, and when Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Castle St, Dunedin.

Soon after this the family moved to Timaru, then to Lyttleton, where Alexander worked as the engineer on the dredge Timaru.

He died suddenly in 1906 – Mary later moved back to Timaru where she died on 13 March 1928.

Mary and Alexander are buried with their daughter Annie in the Timaru 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

Timaru District Council https://www.timaru.govt.nz/services

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.

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