Mary Rolleston

Elizabeth Mary Rolleston (30 March 1845 – 4 June 1940), known as Mary Rolleston, was a New Zealand homemaker, political hostess and community leader.

Mary Rolleston
Rolleston in 1900
Born
Elizabeth Mary Brittan

30 March 1845
Castleton, Dorset, England
Died4 June 1940(1940-06-04) (aged 95)
Christchurch, New Zealand
Known forpolitical hostess
community leader

She was born as Elizabeth Mary Brittan in Castleton, Dorset, England in 1845. Her parents were Joseph Brittan, a surgeon and newspaper proprietor, and Elizabeth Mary Brittan (née Chandler). She had five siblings, two of whom died in infancy and a fortnight after the birth and then death of the last child in 1849, her mother herself died.[1] The surviving siblings were Joseph (Joe), Arthur, and Frances (Frank).[2][3][4]

Mary Brittan married William Rolleston on 24 May 1865 at Holy Trinity Avonside. She died in Christchurch on 4 June 1940.

Notes

  1. Rolleston 1971, p. 15.
  2. Rolleston 1971, Inside back cover.
  3. "Passage of the "William Hyde"". Lyttelton Times. Vol. II, no. 58. 14 February 1852. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
  4. Starky, Suzanne. "Rolleston, Elizabeth Mary – Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 8 September 2012.

References

  • Rolleston, Rosamund (1971). William & Mary Rolleston : An informal biography. Reed Publishing. ISBN 0-589-00621-5.


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