Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary McDiarmid was born in 1855 at Woodside Farm, West Taieri – the daughter of Francis McDiarmid, a farmer, and Janet Milne.
Her parents arrived on the Philip Laing in 1848 and soon after they settled at Woodside, which Mary’s father named.
Mary was born in a 'little wattle-and-daub hut in which the family lived for many years'.
Mary died on 5 April 1938 at her residence “Busholme”, Woodside and she is buried in the family grave in the West Taieri 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
Going Abroad http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm
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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