See also Caversham research databases
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Parker was born about 1853 in Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter of Thomas Anderson, a coal miner, and Jean Muir.
She married Thomas Parker, a glazier, on 8 December 1873 in Glasgow and they had four children before they emigrated to Otago in 1883 on the Caroline.
Her parents and siblings had emigrated in 1879.
They had, at least, six further children and settled, at first, in Caversham, Dunedin before moving to Fairfield where Mary signed the suffrage petition and Thomas worked as a coal miner.
Thomas died in 1931 in Dunedin and Mary died in Invercargill on 15 January 1939 – the are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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