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Mrs A. Jones

Signed family name
Jones
Signed given name
Mrs A.
Given address
Waikouaiti
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Waikouaiti
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Mary Gunn was born about 1838 in Scotland.

She married farmer Andrew Jones on December 30th 1863 in the Waikouaiti Presbyterian Church.

They had four children and lived in Waikouaiti where Mary signed the suffrage petition.

Andrew died at their home in 1896 and Mary died, also at home, on December 9th 1921. They are buried together in the Waikouaiti Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

DCC Cemetery Records

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Presbyterian Research Centre

Find a Grave

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