Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Mary Garland Florence Christopher was born in 1855 in New South Wales, Australia – the daughter of Captain Alexander McKenzie Christopher & Maria Florence Lucas McCallum. Her father died in 1862 & the family moved to Dunedin.
Mary married Andrew Christie on February 26th 1875 in the Otago Peninsula parish.
They had 11 children, 4 who died in infancy, and the family lived in Dunedin for a time before moving to South Otago where Andrew worked as a police officer.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Balclutha.
A few years later they moved to Mosgiel then to Christchurch where Andrew worked as a traffic inspector.
He died in 1936 & Mary died on September 25th 1937, they are buried together in the Bromley Cemetery.