Standing left: Mary Helena McCully – née McEwen (1880-1939) daughter of Andrew and Mary Ann McEwen. Standing right: Mary Ann McEwen – née Scrimshaw (1853-1926), daughter of George Scrimshaw. Sitting: Mrs George Scrimshaw – mother of Mary Ann McEw...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1903

Mrs Wrigley possibly lived at Sanson. Her daughter married Sir John McKenzie, of McKenzies Department Stores.

Creator:      H Billens and Co.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

Mrs Sarah Ann Linton, nee Kibblewhite (1852-1916) was the wife of James Linton, second Mayor of Palmerston North. They married in 1869 and had eleven children. In 1871, they moved to Palmerston North, where they were said to have built the first b...

Creator:      Johnson, Wellington
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1905

This portrait shows Mary Ann Oakley, an earlier settler to New Zealand. Born Mary Ann Lee in Cheshire, England, 1819, she married her first husband Edmund Perrin in 1838 and had five children. They came to New Zealand on the "Martha Ridgeway" in 1...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1890

Children of Matilda and John Kennedy. From left: Fredrick Chafe (who fought in in the Boer War), Jessie (who became Mrs L. Gronn and later Mrs A. Ross), William, Barbara (who became Mrs Cowen of Apiti and later Mrs Anderson), Issac (who also fough...

Creator:      Nelson Irving, Te Awamutu
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950 to circa 1960

Jane was the eldest daughter of James (second Mayor of Palmerston North) and Sarah Ann Linton. She arrived in Palmerston North with her parents in 1871.

Jane was one of approximately 523 Palmerston North women who signed the Suffrage petition, su...

Creator:      Nairns
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905