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