suffrage_petition
Surname: 
South
Given names: 
Mrs M. A.
Given address: 
Walton Park
Sheet No: 150
Town/Suburb: 
Green Island
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Mary Ann Harden was born in 1849 in Shoreditch, London – the daughter of Thomas Harden, a toy puzzle manufacturer, & Mary Ann Toomath. (See 150 Mrs Dutton)

By 1861 Mary’s parents had parted company and her mother’s new partner was Daniel Dutton.

Mary Ann 'Dutton' married Joseph South, a 46 year old widower and a brickmaker, in London in 1869.

Mary Ann and Joseph had two children, one who died in infancy, before the family emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Buckinghamshire.

The family settled at Green Island near Dunedin and a further seven children were born to the family.

Joseph died in 1906, he is buried in the Southern Cemetery with one of his daughters.

Mary Ann re-married in 1914 to Richard Harris and they lived in Timaru. She died on 27 August 1916 and is buried in the Timaru Cemetery.

For more information on the South/Dutton family see http://www.samuelsouth.co.uk/

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

Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk

GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Timaru District Council https://www.timaru.govt.nz/services

Poster

Poster from a meeting of the Primitive Methodist church in London in 1871 in which Mrs South was singing temperance songs. 

Contributed by Wendy Ryalls - see her community contribution below.

 

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

Community contributions

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Wendy Ryalls

Posted: 22 Sep 2018

Mary Ann HARDEN ( a.k.a. DUTTON) was born in Lewisham, London in 1851. She married in 1869 at the age of 18 years to Joseph SOUTH a widower with 10 children. In 1874 Joseph and Mary Ann emigrated to Dunedin NZ where Joseph set up a brickworks. Mary Ann was a member of the Primitive Methodist Church and actively involved in the Temperance movement.