Signed family name
Thomas
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
Mornington
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Maria Allen was born on June 15th 1829 in St Austell, Cornwall – the daughter of Richard Allen, a tin miner, and Patience Warne.
Maria emigrated to South Australia where she married James Thomas, a miner and widower with five children, on 20 October 1869 at Wallaroo Mine.
They had a son in 1872 and shortly after they sailed for Melbourne then to New Zealand.
The family settled in Dunedin where James worked as a grocer and when Maria signed the suffrage petition they were living in Lawrence St, Mornington.
James died in 1899 and Maria died at her home on 25 October 1908 – they are both buried in the Southern Cemetery.