suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Jeffs
Given names: 
Mary
Given address: 
Templeton
Sheet No: 1
Town/Suburb: 
Templeton
City/Region: 
Christchurch
Notes: 

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Mary Gaskell was born in 1845 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England – the daughter of Thomas Gaskell and Sarah Fearns.

She emigrated to Canterbury with her family in 1851 on the Labuan and she married Charles Jeffs, a widower and farmer, in 1861.

Mary and Charles had 11 children together and when Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Templeton south of Christchurch.

Charles died in 1902 and Mary died at her daughter’s home in Christchurch on 2 May 1922, she is buried with Charles in the Templeton Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Family Search https://www.familysearch.org

Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk

GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk

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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