Signed family name
Cargill
Signed given name
M.
Given address
Forth Street
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Matilda McGowen was born about 1830 in Bristol, England.
She married David Cargill, a costume maker, in Staffordshire in 1858 and they had 2 children.
In 1883 Matilda sailed for New Zealand on the Invercargill with her children & they settled in Dunedin.
When Matilda signed the suffrage petition she was living in Forth Street.
Sometime after her daughter Margaret’s (See 125 Margaret Dugdale ) death in 1897 Matilda moved to New South Wales with her son.
She died on December 27th 1919 and she is buried with her son in the Manly Cemetery.
Sources :
BDM online NZ
DCC Cemetery Records
Free BDM
GRO England
Papers Past
Find a Grave