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Mary Windeyer


 * http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0621b.htm
 * http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/windeyer-lady-mary-elizabeth-1059
 * http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2168b.htm

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 * Category: Suffragettes
 * Category:Librarians
 * Category:Dames from Australia
 * Category: Women of Australia

Margaret Windeyer
 * http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/windeyer-margaret-margy-1058

Early life and immigration to Australia
Mary was the second daughter of the Rev. Robert Thorley Bolton, a clergyman of the Church of England, and his wife Jane Martha. She was baptized on 2 April 1837 at Buxted, Sussex, England. She travelled with her parents to Sydney in the Strathfieldsaye, arriving on 25 July 1839. It was the same ship that brought Henry Parkes, later Sir Henry, to the Colony of New South Wales and with whom she later became friends. Mary spent her childhood at Hexham and married lawyer William Charles Windeyer on 31 December 1857. Windeyer became a prominent Sydney judge. Mary and William had nine children. Their fifth daughter was Margaret Windeyer.

Philanthropy and activism
Mary Windeyer was president of the Women's Suffrage League of New South Wales from 1891-1893, and co-founder of the Ashfield Infants' Home and the Temporary Aid Society. Mary Windeyer was a board-member (1881-86 and 1889-97) of a board to oversee the fostering of children from the colony's orphanages.

Lady Windeyer was foundation president of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales. After her resignation in 1893, she resigned as president, but remained active in the campaign as convenor of the franchise department of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.