Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Walker was born about 1854 in Ireland.
She married Robert McCutcheon, a labourer, on 24 November 1874 in Omagh, County Tyrone.
They had two sons before they boarded the Timaru in 1878 bound for Otago. The family settled in Lawrence, where Margaret signed the suffrage petition, and they had a further four children. Robert died at their home in 1938 and Margaret died after a long stay at the Lawrence hospital on 10 June 1940.
She 'endured suffering with cheerfulness and fortitude, never complaining and always delighting in the psalms of David...Her interests in sickness and in health were particularly the Presbyterian Church of which she was the oldest member, joining in 1880, and the cause of temperance, to both of which she was devoted'.
Margaret is buried with Robert in the Lawrence Cemetery.
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
Interment.net http://www.interment.net/data/nz/otago/lawrence
Irish Genealogy https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/
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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