Mrs J. R. Bremner

Signed family name

Bremner

Signed given name

Mrs J. R.

Given address

Forbury Road Caversham

Sheet number

140

Town/Suburb

Caversham

City/Region

Dunedin

Notes

See also Caversham research databases

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Maria McDowell McEachen was born about 1847 in Nelson, New Zealand – the daughter of Archibald McEachen, a builder, and Maria.

She married Joseph Reid Bremner, a merchant, in Dunedin on 14 November 1867.

They had eight children and lived at Hamiltons on the Otago Goldfields where Joseph ran a store. In the 1870s the family moved to Hampden in North Otago where they also had a store.

The 1880s saw the family moving to Dunedin where Joseph worked as a travelling salesman and, when Maria signed the suffrage petition, the family were living in Forbury Rd, Caversham. Joseph died in 1897, he is buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.

Maria died on 5 April 1918 in Merivale, Christchurch, she is buried in the Linwood Cemetery.