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Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Anna Henrietta Mason was born in 1853 in Greenwich, Kent – the daughter of George William Mason, a seaman, and Henrietta Mouchon. (See 62 Mrs Mason)
In 1860 Anna sailed for Victoria, Australia on the Lincolnshire with her mother and brother, her father had presumably worked his passage.
Shortly after the family moved to Otago and settled in Port Chalmers where her father was a partner is a firm of stevedores supplying water to shipping.
Anna married Samuel Brian Gibson, an accountant, on 24 December 1872 at St Paul’s Church, Dunedin.
They had five children, one who died in infancy, and when Anna signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Laing St, Caversham.
Samuel died in Timaru in 1909, he is buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
Anna died in Christchurch on 22 February 1944, her burial place is unknown.
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
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Public Record Office Victoria https://prov.vic.gov.au
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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