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Margaret Jamieson

Signed family name
Jamieson
Signed given name
Margaret
Given address
George St
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Margaret was born about 1833 in Ireland.

In 1874 she emigrated to Otago on the Mairi Bhan with her husband John, a farm labourer, and their five children - they settled in Dunedin.

When Margaret signed the suffrage petition the family were living in George St.

She died on 24 June 1893 and John died on 26 September the same year, they are buried together in the Northern Cemetery.

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.