Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Marion Hamilton was born about 1853 in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
She married Andrew Ramsay, a shepherd, on 9 April 1875 in Stonehouse, Lanarkshire and they had a daughter before they sailed for Otago in 1876 on the Timaru.
They settled in Green Island, near Dunedin, where Andrew worked as a van driver and they had a further nine children, three who died in infancy.
Marion signed the suffrage petition at, nearby, Walton Park.
She died at her home on 11 November 1918 and Andrew died in 1932 – they are buried in the family grave in the Green Island Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
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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