Town/suburb changed from Wakari to South Dunedin
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Jane Credgington was born in 1862 in Staffordshire, England – the daughter of Thomas Credgington, a painter, and Ellen Bartlett.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1875 on the Wild Deer and they settled in Dunedin.
Mary married Moses Pooly Wright, a butcher, in 1886 and they had two daughters.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Main Rd, South Dunedin.
Moses died in 1929 in Dunedin – he is buried in the Southern Cemetery.
In later life Mary went to live in Rangiora near her daughter Ethel.
Mary died at the Rangiora Hospital on 19 March 1953 – she was cremated in Christchurch.
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