suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Dodds
Given names: 
Mary
Given address: 
Cumberland St
Sheet No: 48
Town/Suburb: 
Central Dunedin
City/Region: 
Dunedin
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Mary Grundy was born in 1854 in Limber, Lincolnshire, England England – the daughter of Joseph Grundy, a foreman, and Hannah Brinkell.

She emigrated to New Zealand in the 1870s and married William Dodds on 17 September 1874.

William worked at a barman at the White Horse Hotel in Milton, South Otago.

They had four children and, in 1888, the family moved to Dunedin and William worked as a carter - when Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Cumberland St.

William died in 1910 and Mary died on 9 July 1930, she is buried with William 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

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

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

Family Search https://www.familysearch.org

Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk

GRO England https://www.gro.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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