S. M. Waldie

Surname:

Waldie

Given names:

S. M.

Given address:

Cargill Road

Sheet No: 147

Town/Suburb:

Central Dunedin

City/Region:

Dunedin

Notes:

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Susan Mary Adams Stewart was born on 6 January 1862 in Glasgow, Scotland – the daughter of Alexander Stewart, an officer for H M Customs, and Christina Adams Barrie.

She came to New Zealand with her parents when an infant and they settled in Dunedin.

Her father died in 1871, as the result of an accident and her mother died in 1875.

She married John Waldie, a draper, on 13 November 1884 at the Knox Church Manse.

John died in September 1885, he is buried in the Northern Cemetery, and their son John Alexander was born one month later.

When Susan signed the suffrage petition she was living in Macandrew Rd, South Dunedin.

She re-married in 1897 to Robert Brodie Wilson, a widower with several children and a fellmonger. They lived in Dunedin where Robert died in 1906, he is buried in the Northern Cemetery. Susan married again in 1908 to John Elliot Cochrane, a shepherd and widower.

They lived in Middlemarch, then in Kurow, where Susan died on 27 July 1914, she is buried with Robert Wilson in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.

John died in the Oamaru Hospital in 1919, he is buried in the Kurow Cemetery.