Mrs Mary Mowlem was wife to Fred Mowlem a commission and estate land agent, in partnership with James Linton in about 1892 and later with James Mowlem. In 1920, Fred was a JP and had retired from Mowlem & Mowlem.
Mary Mowlem was one of approximately 523 Palmerston North women who signed the Suffrage petition, submitted to Parliament in 1893.
