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Mary McKenzie

Signed family name
McKenzie
Signed given name
Mary
Given address
Waikouaiti
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Waikouaiti
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Mary Ann McKenzie was born in 1869 in New Zealand, the daughter of Alexander McKenzie and Christina Fletcher.

See 102 Christina McKenzie

Mary grew up in Port Chalmers, near Dunedin, before moving to Waikouaiti with her family where she signed the suffrage petition.

In the late 1890s the family moved back to Port Chalmers where she married John Horn, a railway guard, in 1897.

They had four children and lived in Dunedin. Mary died at their home on November 14th 1937 and John died in 1948.

They are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

DCC Cemetery Records

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Christina Fletcher – The families of Robert Matthews and Dayle McKenzie

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.