Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Wallace was born on 8 October 1847 in Dysart, Fife, Scotland – the daughter of William Wallace, a grocer, and Mary Husband.
She emigrated to Otago in the 1870s and went to live with her sister near Milton.
Mary married William Aitchison, a widower and farmer, in 1889 and they lived at 'North Branch' near Milton where Mary signed the suffrage petition.
They later moved to live in Milton where Mary died on 14 April 1917 and William died later that year in October, they are buried together in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
Sources
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
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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