Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Petrie was born about 1831 in Arboath, Angus, Scotland.
She married David Baird, a shoemaker, on 30 December 1853 in Arbroath and they had eight children, three who died in infancy.
In 1883 the family emigrated to Otago on the Nelson and when Mary signed the suffrage petition they were living in Outram, West Taieri.
David died in 1906 and Mary died at her daughter’s home in Dunedin on 25 February 1909, they are buried together in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
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
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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