Mary R. Golding

Signed family name

Golding

Signed given name

Mary R.

Given address

Enfield

Sheet number

296

Town/Suburb

Enfield

City/Region

Otago

Notes

Biographical information provided by Briar Barry for the He Tohu exhibition:

Mary Reside White married Francis Golding in 1868. Together they had three daughters. Mary’s husband was the Headmaster of the Enfield Public School (Enfield is located just outside of Ōamaru) from 1883. He was also one of the first students to attend Otago University in its opening year.

Additional biographical information by Katherine Blakeley:

Mary Reside White was born in 1851 in New Zealand – the daughter of William White, a shoemaker, and Agnes Wyllie. (See 100 Mrs W White)

She grew up in Waihola, south of Dunedin, where she married Francis Golding, a teacher, on 25 September 1868.

They had three daughters and when Mary signed the suffrage petition they were living in Enfield in North Otago where Francis was working as the headmaster of the school.

Francis died at Mary’s brother’s home in Tapanui in 1907 and Mary died in Dunedin Hospital on 17 March 1913.

They are buried together in the Tapanui Cemetery.