Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Mary Pettigrew was born about 1839 in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
She married James Fleming on 31 December 1856 and they had three children, one who died in infancy.
The family emigrated to Otago in 1861 on the Storm Cloud and they had a further five children.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Maclaggan St, Dunedin although James appears to have left the family by this time.
Mary died on 4 August 1912 – she is buried in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources :
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
NZ Yesteryears http://www.yesteryears.co.nz
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.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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