Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Wright was born in1854 in Ludlow, Shropshire, England – the daughter of James Wright, a carpenter, and Emma Harding. (See 67 Emma Wright)
Mary emigrated to Otago in 1857 with her family on the Maori and they settled in Dunedin.
Mary married Andrew Blair, an engineer, in 1876 and they had three children.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Clyde St.
Andrew died in 1916, he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Mary died on 5 September 1940, she is buried in the Wright family grave in the Northern 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
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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