Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary McCambridge Parker was born about 1836 and was married to John Parker, a miner.
The family lived at Adam’s Flat where Mary signed the suffrage petition and they had two children.
They are also possibly the parents of 'John Parker’s two children' who are buried in the Glenore Cemetery.
They later moved to Milton where John died in 1911.
Mary died in Dunedin on 13 February 1918, they are buried with their son 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
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
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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