Signed family name
Dow
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
South Dunedin
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ryan was born about 1847 in Ireland, she emigrated to New Zealand in the 1860s and married Robert Dow, a railway porter, on 22 February 1878.
They had seven children and, when Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Cargill Rd, South Dunedin.
Robert died in 1919 and Mary died on 14 June 1930, they are buried with their son in the Andersons Bay 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
