Signed family name
Graham
Signed given name
M.
Given address
Waikouaiti
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Martha Graham was born in 1869 in Longtown, Cumberland, England – the daughter of Francis Lamb Graham, a farmer, and Margaret Ferguson. (See 102 Mrs Graham)
She emigrated to Otago in 1881 on the Wild Deer with her family and they settled in Waikouaiti, north of Dunedin.
Martha signed the suffrage petition in Waikouaiti and she died at her home on 31 July 1894.
She is buried in the family grave in the Waikouaiti Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz