Signed family name
Power
Signed given name
C. M.
Given address
Palmerston
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Catherine Mary Power was born about 1844.
In 1880 she arrived in Otago on the Mataura with her husband Martin and their 3 children.
They settled in North Otago and had a further 3 children, one who died in infancy.
When Catherine signed the suffrage petiton they were living in Palmerston and Martin was working as a coal merchant.
She died at her home on May 11th 1909 and Martin died in 1911. They are buried in the Palmerston Cemetery.