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Maggie Love

Signed family name
Love
Signed given name
Maggie
Given address
Linden
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Roslyn
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

The 1893 electoral roll confirms Forth St Linden Chalmers elect.

This looks very similar to the signature of Maggie Love, Fourth Street Linden, Roslyn, who signed sheet 114.

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Maggie Hindle Graham Love was born on 17 April 1871 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland – the daughter of Johnston Love, a sailor, and Jane Eaglesham. (See 114 Jane Love)

She emigrated to Canterbury in 1876 with her mother and five siblings on the Jessie Osborne. Her father possibly worked his passage around this time.

The family settled in Dunedin and when Maggie signed the suffrage petition, they were living in Forth St, Linden, Roslyn and she was working as a weaver.

She married Donald Murray, a blacksmith, in 1895 at her sister’s home in Christchurch and they had three children.

The family lived in Christchurch and Maggie died there on 10 June 1947.

Donald died the following year, they are buried together in the Sydenham Cemetery.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Family Search https://www.familysearch.org

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Christchurch City Council http://heritage.christchurchcitylibraries.com

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