Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ann Hannan was born about 1849 in County Mayo, Ireland – the daughter of Catherine Hannan.
She came to New Zealand with her mother and several siblings in the 1860s and she married John McQuin in 1867.
They lived at Otokia on the Taieri Plain and they had three children, one who died in infancy, before John died in 1873.
Mary remarried in 1875 to Alexander John Rintoul/Rentoul, a shepherd and widower with an adult son.
Mary and Alexander had two children. Alexander was declared bankrupt in 1877 – he died the following year after a fall from his horse and is buried in the Otakia Cemetery.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition she was living in Melville St, Dunedin.
She died in Dunedin on 14 May 1917 and is buried with her first husband and infant son in the Otakia Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/