Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Graham was born in 1869 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Graham and Janet Young. (See 117 Janet Young Graham)
When Rubina signed the suffrage petition she was living with her widowed mother and siblings in McCrae St, Mornington, Dunedin.
She married Harry James White, a farmer, on 18 November 1908 in Oamaru – they had no children.
Robina died at her mother’s home in Dunedin on 24 December 1925, she is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Harry appears to have re-married in 1930, he died in the 1940s.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/