Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary McCallum was born about 1834 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland – the daughter of Archibald McCallum, a farmer, and Christian McKellar.
She married John McInnes, a carter, on 26 December 1861 in Rothesay and they had six children, one who died in childhood.
The family emigrated to Otago in 1883 on the Caroline and they settled in Milton where Mary signed the suffrage petition.
John died in 1912 and Mary died at her home on 9 June 1918, they are buried in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
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
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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