suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Rainey
Given names: 
Mary Wallace
Given address: 
Lincoln
Sheet No: 190
Town/Suburb: 
Lincoln
City/Region: 
Christchurch
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Joyce Hislop

Mary Rainey was born in 1840 in Rasharkin, County Antrim, Ireland, daughter of Alexander and Maria (nee Glasgow) Wallace. Alexander was an undertaker and wheelwright. Mary married Robert Rainey on the 18 June 1861 and the couple sailed as assisted emigrants to New Zealand on 5 September that year on board the Sebastopol arriving in Canterbury on 14 December.

Robert and Mary first resided on Ferry Road then after some years bought land in Lincoln and Tai Tapu where Robert became a successful stock breeder. The Lincoln property was known as 'Lincoln Lodge'. He later became a Justice of the Peace and served on several local committees. 

They had eight children – Maria Glasgow (1862-1939), Annie Matilda (1864-1923), James (1865-1866), Thomas Montgomery (1866-1940), Robert Wallace (1868-1958), Margaret (Marguerite) (1870-1960), Sarah Glasgow (1873-1960) and Martha Lavinia (1876-1963).

Robert, Mary and two of their unmarried daughters Annie and Sarah, moved to Mather’s Road, Spreydon in 1908. Their third unmarried daughter Martha Lavinia continued to live with her brother Robert Wallace on the farm at Lincoln until his marriage in 1912.

Mary died on 2 October 1914 aged 74 years and is buried in the Sydenham Cemetery. Robert died on 15 August 1934 aged 92 years and is buried with Mary at Sydenham.

Sources

BDM’s & IGI

Shipping Records

Electoral Rolls

Papers Past

Note: Mary RAINEY is the mother of Sarah Glasgow RAINEY (190) and sister of Lavinia RAPLEY (503)

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