Notes provided by Helen Edwards, who has carried out extensive research on the women who signed Sheet 156, including mapping where they lived. Download pdf of this research here.
Margaret Colina Matheson, nee Robertson [M. C. Matheson, Roslyn] (No. 36)
Land description: Part allotments 4, 5, 6 of part section 8 Block 5, Township of Roslyn. Address: 44 High Street [1911]; now 142 Highgate. Age in 1893: 45 years.
Matheson, was born in the Highlands about 1850. They married in Edinburgh in 1873 and were in Dunedin by February 1880, when Alexander purchased property in Roslyn. They arrived with possibly four children and three more were born here. The youngest, John Robertson Matheson, served in Gallipoli and France in World War One. Alexander was an accountant for various firms, including the Mutual Agency Co. and McLean and Co. He was a member of the Roslyn Borough Council and mayor of Roslyn from 1907 to 1909. Margaret died at her daughter’s home in Tauranga in 1922, at the age of 74. Alexander died in 1926, aged 76. He is buried in Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery.