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Mrs Churchill

Signed family name
Churchill
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
Castle Street
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Mary Margaret Elizabeth Knowles was born on June 13th 1867 in Bothwell, Tasmania, the daughter of William Knowles, a bootmaker, and Annie Louisa Anderson.

See 28 Mrs Knowles

She came to Otago with her family in the 1870s, and she married Edmund George Churchill in 1891. They had seven children.

When Mary signed the suffrage petition they were living in Castle St, Dunedin.

They later moved to Port Chalmers then to Wellington where Mary died on February 1st 1925.

Edmund died in 1946. They are buried together in the Karori Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Find a Grave

Libraries Tasmania

Wellington City Council Cemeteries

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.