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Mary Ann Raine
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TitleMary Ann Raine
Alternative NameMary Ann Haddrell
SummaryA woman of Selwyn who signed the 1893 Suffrage Petition
Description1892 Suffrage Petition - page 451/257
1893 Suffrage Petition - page 2
First NameMary
Middle NameAnn
Last NameRaine
Date of Birth28 July 1853
Place of BirthEast Herrington, Durham, England
Date of Death8 August 1906
Place of DeathNew Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand
Age at Death53
Parents or Next of KinThomas Raine ("Soda Pop" Raine)
Harriet Vyse
Walter Henry Haddrell
Other Biographical InformationMary Ann Raine was born 28 July 1853 in East Herrington, Durham as the inscription on her headstone informs us. She was baptised in the church of Houghton Le Spring a few miles to the south on 21st August, daughter of Thomas Raine and Harriet Vyse. Mary Ann was only six when the family set out for New Zealand as assisted emigrants travelling on board the "Mystery" and arriving in Lyttelton in March of 1859. Upon settling in Christchurch, Thomas, drawing on his prior experience as a soda water manufacturer in England, set himself up in business as a manufacturer of soda water, ginger beer and lemonade. His first business appears to have been on the corner of Peterborough and Gloucester streets where he operated from 1859. He was widely known as "Soda Pop Raine." In 1875 Mary Ann Raine married Walter Henry Haddrell. He had arrived in New Zealand in 1866 with his parents and siblings on board the "Glenmark" and his father was owner of the well known Market Hotel. Perhaps they had met because Mary Ann's father was a supplier of Walter's father's hotel. Walter did not follow his father into business but instead joined the Police Force. By 1890 they were settled in Malvern. Mary Ann signed the 1892 Suffrage petition on page 451/257 and then the 1893 Petition on page 2, however she did not manage to enrol to vote in the short time before the election. She did enrol to vote in susequent years. The family moved in 1898 when Walter took up his new placement in New Plymouth where he became Sergeant. Mary Ann died there on November 6 1906 and was buried in Te Henui Cemetery. She would probably have been very pleased to know that Olive, her youngest daughter born just three years before Mary signed the petition, gained a Masters Degree from the University of New Zealand in 1911. Four years later Walter married for the second time to Kate Johnston of Cust and she died before him in 1930. Walter died in June the following year. He had been blind for the last years of his life and left £3OO to the Jubilee Institute for the Blind to build a home for the elderly and blind.
England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 FHL Film Number 1894477 Reference ID item 3 p 27
Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13237, 8 August 1906, Page 4
Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8526, 11 August 1906, Page 5
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155745246/mary-ann-haddrell




1893 Suffrage Petition - page 2









Harriet Vyse
Walter Henry Haddrell

England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 FHL Film Number 1894477 Reference ID item 3 p 27
Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13237, 8 August 1906, Page 4
Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8526, 11 August 1906, Page 5
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155745246/mary-ann-haddrell

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Subject (Keywords)Suffrage, Annat
PlaceAnnat


Military Service
Memorial or CemeteryTe Henui, New Plymouth

Attribution
Mary Ann Raine. Selwyn Stories, accessed 17/02/2025, https://selwynstories.selwynlibraries.co.nz/nodes/view/5681