Also signed as 109 M E Bowler
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ethel Hepburn was born in 1868 in Dunedin – the daughter of William Hepburn and Margaret Marshall. (See 156 Margaret Hepburn)
Mary’s father died in 1887 and she married Edmund Robert Bowler, a law clerk, on 12 November 1890 at her mother’s home in Roslyn.
They had three daughters and they lived in Gore where Edmund practiced as a lawyer and where Mary signed the suffrage petition.
They retired to Timaru about 1926 where Edmund died in 1927.
Mary died on 15 May 1947 – she is buried with Edmund in the Timaru Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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