Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Grounds was born on 21 February 1870 in Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter of John Grounds, a railway labourer, and Margaret McNeill. (See 83 Margaret Grounds)
She emigrated to Canterbury in 1873 on the James Nicol Fleming with her family and they settled in Dunedin where Margaret signed the suffrage petition.
She married Edward William Batchelor, a clerk, on 28 September 1898 in Oamaru.
They had five children before Edward died suddenly in 1926, he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Where Margaret went after Edward’s death is unclear - there is a Margaret Batchelor who died on 15 December 1959 in Timaru, in her 90th year which could be this Margaret.
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/