May Edith Evelyn Furey (2 May 1891 – 29 December 1962) was a New Zealand machinist, political activist and feminist.
[1] Furey was born in Islington, London in 1891, the daughter of Isabella Rose and her husband James William Edwards, a compositor.
[1] Furey married piano-maker Harry Ernest Finnimore on 1 August 1914, in London.
A daughter Betty was born in 1917, but in November 1918 Harry died during the influenza epidemic.
Under her direction the CHU became a Popular Front organisation, linked to other left-wing activists.