Greaves, Mary Ann (1834–1897)

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Greaves, Mary Ann (1834–1897)

New Zealand prostitute. Born in 1834, in Leicestershire, England; died Feb 18, 1897, at Christchurch, New Zealand.

Immigrated to Canterbury, New Zealand, from Tasmania (1859); worked as prostitute and served several terms of imprisonment for drunkenness, solicitation, vagrancy, and larceny.

See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 2).

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