Signed family name
Byars
Signed given name
May
Given address
Chatton
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
May Wood was born about 1838.
She married Alexander Byars, a farmer, in 1867 and they had five children.
They farmed at Mayfield at Chatton, north of Gore, where May signed the suffrage petition.
She died at her home on 18 April 1899 and Alexander died in 1910 – they are buried together in the Gore Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Chatton near Gore