Also signed as 165 M Ker
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Marion Baxter was born about 1847 in Cranston, Midlothian, Scotland – the daughter of Robert Baxter, a coal miner, and Christina Kerr.
She married David Ker, a joiner, on 8 April 1870 in Edinburghshire, Scotland and they had two daughters before the family emigrated to Otago in 1872 on the Christian McAusland.
They had a further six children after their arrival and when Marion signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Manor Place, Dunedin.
Marion died at her home in Dunedin on 6 September 1922, she is buried in the family grave in the Southern Cemetery.
David died in Oamaru in 1927 and is buried in the Oamaru Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/
