Also signed as 170 Mary Bremner
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ann Dick was born about 1845 in Scotland, she emigrated to New Zealand about in the 1860s and married George Goddard Bremner on 11 April 1867.
They had nine children and lived in Port Chalmers.
In 1886, when their youngest child was one-year-old, George died suddenly while lifting a box from his express of a probable heart attack.
Mary was left 'in very destitiute circumstances'.
A public concert was held at the Garrison Hall to raise funds for the family which was 'well attended'.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Grange St, Dunedin.
She died on 13 November 1927 and is buried with George 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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