Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret/Maggie Carey Hosie was born on 3 December 1844 in Arbiriot, Angus, Scotland - the daughter of George Hosie, a linen bleacher, and Margaret Scott.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1857 on the Maori and they settled at Waikouaiti, north of Dunedin.
Margaret married James Carson, a carpenter, on 18 November 1863 in the Waikouaiti parish and they had 11 children.
She lived the rest of her life in Waikouaiti where she signed the suffrage petition.
James died in 1923 and Margaret died on 5 June 1938, they are buried together in the Waikouaiti Cemetery.
Her obituary said she 'was the last surviving member of the first Presbyterian Church choir in Waikouaiti, and always took a keen interest and active part in church affairs until within the last few years, which she spent quietly at the home of her daughter'.
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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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