Signed family name
Valentine
Signed given name
Mrs Jane
Given address
Kensington
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Jane Mussen was born in New Zealand in 1870 – the daughter of Charles Mussen, a labourer, and Ruth Pierce.
She married Thomas Tallentire Valentine, a waterside worker, in 1889 – they had no children.
When Mary Jane signed the suffrage petition they were living in Grosvenor St, Kensington, Dunedin.
Thomas died in 1945 and Mary Jane died on 1 March 1947, they are buried together 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz