Surname:
Booth
Given names:
Margaret
Given address:
Gore
Notes:
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Also signed as 103 Margaret Booth
Margaret O’Byrne was born about 1862.
She married Frederick Booth, a cook, in 1884 in New Zealand and they had four children.
When Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were living in Gore.
Margaret died on 6 January 1900 and Frederick died in 1909 in Dunedin – they are buried together in the Gore Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.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.
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