suffrage_petition
Surname: 
McDonald
Given names: 
Mrs D.
Given address: 
Millburn
Sheet No: 139
Town/Suburb: 
Milburn
City/Region: 
Otago
Notes: 

Originally transcribed as 138 Mrs D McDonald

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Margaret was born in 1834 in Ayrshire, Scotland.

She married Donald McDonald and shortly after their marriage they emigrated to Otago in 1863 on the City of Dunedin.

'After a brief stay at Maori Hill, they went to the Tokomairiro Plains, and after a few years’ stay on a farm then owned by the late Mr John L Gillies, they removed to Greenfield Station, in the Tuapeka district.'

They returned to Tokomairiro in the 1870s & bought land at Milburn where they raised their eight children and where Margaret signed the suffrage petition.

Donald died in 1901 and Margaret died at her home in Dunedin on 12 March 1928, they are buried together in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Family Search https://www.familysearch.org

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.

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