Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Young was born in 1852 in Dunedin – the daughter of William Young, a carpenter, and Jenny Smith Wilkie.
When she was about three-years-old her family moved to Warepa in South Otago.
Margaret married Andrew Todd, a butcher, on 19 July 1888 at her brother’s home in Owaka and they had four children.
Margaret signed the suffrage petition in Owaka – two of her sisters also signed the petition in Owaka (See 136 Elizabeth Abernethy and 136 Jane Dabinett)
Sometime in the 1900s they moved to Okaiawa in Taranaki where Margaret died on 11 April 1908, she is buried in the Okaiawa Cemetery.
Andrew’s date and place of death are unclear.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
South Taranaki District Council https://public.stdc.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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