Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary McCutcheon was born on 21 June 1857 in Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland – the daughter of Hugh McCutcheon, a cattle dealer, and Mary McQuaker.
Her mother died shortly after her birth and her father re-married in 1859. (See 120 Margaret McCutcheon)
Mary emigrated to Otago with her family on the William Davie in 1870 and they settled in Dunedin.
She married John Driley Frew, a painter, on 23 July 1880 – they had eight children, three who died in infancy, - when Mary signed the suffrage petition they were living in Waverley St, South Dunedin.
John died in 1907 and Mary died at her home on 23 November 1923, they are buried in the family grave in the Southern 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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