Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Wallace was born about 1850 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
She emigrated to New Zealand in the mid-1860s and she married John Ramsay, a wool sorter, on 1 August 1868 in Dunedin.
They had six children before John died in 1878.
Margaret re-married in 1880 to John Abbott, a storeman at the Union Steamship Company.
They had five children and when Margaret signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Serpentine Avenue.
Margaret died at her home on 4 November 1915 and John died in 1918 – they are buried with John Ramsay in the family grave 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
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/