Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Jane McCrossan was born about 1858.
She married James Langskail, a fellmonger, in New Zealand in 1882 and they had seven children.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Bluff.
In 1898, when their youngest child was two-years-old, Mary was admitted to Seacliff Mental Hospital suffering from 'delusional insanity'- she was transferred to Poriura Mental Hospital in 1900.
James died in 1899, he is buried in the Gore Cemetery. Later that year the Gore Orchestral Society held a benefit concert 'for the aid of the orphaned family' which raised £25 12s 6d.
Mary died on 17 November 1920, she is buried in the Porirua Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Archway http://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz
Gore District Council https://www.goredc.govt.nz/
Porirua Cemetery https://poriruacity.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.
Community contributions