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Mrs Keenan

Signed family name
Keenan
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
McAndrew Road
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
South Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Mary Josephine Feeney was born about 1854, she arrived in New Zealand about 1874 and she married John Keenan in 1879.

They had six children and when Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Macandrew Rd, South Dunedin.

John died in Dunedin in 1925, he is buried in the Southern Cemetery.

Mary died in Christchurch on 27 June 1929, she is buried in the Bromley 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

Christchurch City Council http://heritage.christchurchcitylibraries.com

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