Maker: Marie Alexander

Panel number: 517

Petition sheet number: -

Person honouring: Mary Jane Fletcher

Relationship to makers: great-grandmother

Mary Jane was born 12 August 1864 at Saltwater Creek, North Canterbury. She was widowed twice and had 11 children with six of those passing away before she did. Her sister Priscilla Fletcher signed the suffage petition (sheet 195).

Panel materials: Grey woollen blanket which was from my father’s time in the RNZAF.