Maker: Ann Pibal

Panel number: 337

Petition Sheet Number: 403

Person honouring: Mary Anderson

Relationship to makers:

Mary Ann Allfrey migrated to Canterbury from Sussex with her father, George Allfrey, stepmother Arabella, and her brother Alfred. Mary Ann married James Anderson, a blacksmith at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Christchurch on 22 April 1857. James had emigrated from Musselburgh, Scotland. 

James set up his smithy in Kaiapoi. Mary Anne and James had four boys and three girls. Mary was a keen member of the Canterbury Early Settlers’ Association and was involved with the women’s suffrage movement. 

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