Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Hood was born about 1828 in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland.
She married Samuel Gaw/McGaa, a weaver’s agent, in April 1846 in Ayrshire and they had 8 children, one who died in infancy, before the family emigrated to New Zealand in the late 1860s. They settled at Waipahi, in South Otago and farmed until the late 1880s when they moved to Dunedin.
When Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were living in Grosvenor St, Hillside, South Dunedin.
Margaret died on 29 April 1896 and Samuel died in 1905, they are buried together in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.
Sources
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
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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