Signed family name
Tyler
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
Laurence
Notes
Originally transcribed as Mrs Tayler
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ann was born about 1860 and married to William James Tyler, a stableman and groom at the Cobb & Co stables in Lawrence.
They had six children, two who died in childhood and Mary signed the suffrage petition while living in Lawrence.
William died at their home in 1902 and, in the 1910s, Mary moved to Dunedin where she died on 26 September 1928.
They are buried in the family grave in the Lawrence Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Interment.net http://www.interment.net/data/nz/otago/lawrence