Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Clark McNutt was born about 1857 in Ireland – the daughter of William McNutt, a farmer, and Margaret McCrea. (See 137 Mrs McNutt)
She emigrated to Otago in 1874 with her family on the Mairi Bhan and she married James Friend on 16 June 1875 at Primrose Hill in Mornington, Dunedin.
They had six children, one who died in infancy, and by the mid 1880s the family were farming at Tahatika near Owaka where Mary signed the suffrage petition.
James died at their home in 1933 and Mary died in 1952, they are buried in the Owaka Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
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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