suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Younghusband
Given names: 
M. A.
Given address: 
St Kilda
Sheet No: 68
Town/Suburb: 
St Kilda
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Mary Ann Turnbridge was born about 1818 in Wapping, Middlesex.

She married John Younghusband, a printer, in 1838 and they had eight children, three who died in infancy, before the family emigrated to Lyttleton in 1855 on the Cashmere.

They settled in Christchurch where they had a further three children and where John ran a Book, Stationery, and Fancy Depot in Colombo Street.

By 1866 they had moved to Timaru and, at the time of their daughter’s marriage in 1885, John was living in London.

What happened to him is unclear.

When Mary signed the suffrage petition she was living with her daughter Ann (See 68 Annie Smith) in St Kilda, Dunedin.

She died at her daughter’s home on 9 November 1895 and is buried 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

Free BDM     https://www.freebmd.org.uk

GRO England   https://www.gro.gov.uk

Otago Nominal Index  http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past     https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

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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