Signed family name
Wilson
Signed given name
M.
Given address
S. Dunedin
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Bell Wilson was born in 1871 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Bell Wilson and Euphemia Jaap.
When she signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Main Rd, South Dunedin.
Margaret married William Adams, a baker, on 16 April 1896 in South Dunedin.
She died on 2 January 1898 aged 26.
William died in 1916 – they are buried together in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/