suffrage_petition
Surname: 
Cramond
Given names: 
Martha D.
Given address: 
Riverside Port Molyneux
Sheet No: 128
Town/Suburb: 
Kaka Point
City/Region: 
Otago
Notes: 

Originally transcribed as Martha D Cramand

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Martha Dunlop Cramond was born in 1866 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Cramond, a blacksmith, and Mary Ann Tait.

Martha did not marry – when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in Port Molyneux.

She played the organ at the Port Molyneux church – in 1889 the congregation 'presented a purse of sovereigns' to Martha 'in recognition of her services for some time past.'

Martha later lived in Temuka and Timaru where she died on 26 January 1936, she is buried in the Timaru 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

Going Abroad http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm

Timaru District Council https://www.timaru.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.

Community contributions

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John Cramond

Posted: 24 Aug 2021

The information here is slightly incorrect. I have done extensive research into all the Cramond's in NZ and Martha was the child of Robert and Mary Cramond but Mary was formally Mary Steven and not Mary Ann Tait. I am a descendant of Robert Cramond and Mary Ann TAIT who lived in East Tairei and he was a Blacksmith. Martha Dunlop Cramond was the eldest child of Robert and Mary Steven who lived at Inch Clutha and he was a farmer. He was to later become Mayor of Balclutha. Do not get the two families mixed up. The rest of the information is correct .

Cheers John