Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret/Maggie Sinclair was born on 1 October 1869 in Dunrossness, Shetland Islands – the daughter of James Sinclair and Margaret Simpson Sinclair. (See 80 Margaret Sinclair)
She emigrated to Otago with her family about 1870 and they settled in South Otago.
Margaret worked as a pupil teacher at Tokomairiro School before being appointed to the position of second assistant at the new Kaitangata School in 1892.
Margaret signed the suffrage petition at her home in Milton.
She married George Hunter McNeur, a missionary for the Canton Villages Mission, on 12 November 1904 at the American Board Mission Church in Hong Kong.
They had one daughter and lived in China, returning for a year in the mid-1920s, before returning to New Zealand permanently in 1941.
George died in Dunedin in 1953 and Margaret died on 25 March 1957, they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
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
http://www.cemeteries.org.nz/stories/mcneurgeorgehunter230907.pdf