Maker: Kate Curtis

Panel number: 125

Petition Sheet Number: 138

Person honouring: M Japp

Relationship to makers: None

A newspaper article cites Mary Japp as objecting to the valuation of her home in Anderson Bay, Dunedin. This indicates the tenacity of the lady.

Mary Woulfe left London aboard the ‘Rangitiki’ on 20 November 1875 and landed in Lyttelton 16 February 1876. She was accompanied by her father John Woulfe, mother Johanna, and brother Patrick Woulfe. 

Mary married James Japp in Dunedin in 1879. Mary and James had three children James Alexander, (1886-1935), Ann Catherine (1882-1901) and Christina (1883?? ). James, a railway man, died 20 November 1902. Mary died on 18 September 1903 at her home. 

Panel materials: All materials from my own stash. The woven work is made of the selvedge from a wrap in which I carried my baby daughter for much of the first year or so of her life.