Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Butterley was born about 1846. She emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Peter Denny with her husband Charles and three-year-old daughter.
The family settled in Dunedin and when Mary signed the suffrage petition they were living in Elm Row - Charles was working as a fishmonger and Mary was working as a charwoman.
Charles died in 1906, he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
A Mary Butterly married Campbell Gibson, a farmer, in 1912. This Mary died on 4 March 1924 and is buried with her husband in the Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch.
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
Christchurch City Council http://heritage.christchurchcitylibraries.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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