suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Smith
Given names: 
Miss M.
Given address: 
Ascot Vale
Sheet No: 155
Town/Suburb: 
North Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Mary Tully Smith was born in 1872 in Northumberland, England – the daughter of Thomas Smith and Jane Tindle Marshall. (See 155 Mrs Smith)

She emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1875 on the Waitara arriving in Bluff in December.

Her father was killed in 1879 in the Kaitangata Coal mine explosion and she later moved to Dunedin with her mother.

When she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Ascotvale, North East Valley working as a dressmaker.

She married William Paton Wardlaw, a printer, in 1902 – they had no children.

In the 1920s they moved to Invercargill where Mary died on 26 August 1938.

William died in 1949, they are buried together in the St Johns Cemetery, Invercargill.

Sources

GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Invercargill City Council https://icc.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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