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M. Kingston

Signed family name
Kingston
Signed given name
M.
Given address
Maori Hill
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
North Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Margaret Ellis was born about 1862.

She married Paul Kingston, a maltster, in New Zealand in 1881 and they had eight children, one who died in infancy.

When Margaret signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Maori Hill, Dunedin.

Paul died at their home in 1907 and Margaret died on 15 September 1938, they are buried in the family grave in the Northern 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

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.