Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Black was born about 1828 in Ireland.
She married Jeremiah Borrows, a baker, on 7 June 1850 in Glasgow, Scotland.
They had three children, three who died in infancy, before they emigrated to New Zealand in the early 1870s.
Jeremiah worked as a baker at the Seacliff Asylum for several years, later living in Dunedin.
When Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were living in Moray Place.
The couple celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary in 1900 and their photograph was featured in the Otago Witness: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/otago-witness/1900/06/28/25
Margaret died in 1904, she is buried with her son in the Northern Cemetery.
Jeremiah died in Wellington in 1910, he is buried in the Karori Cemetery, Wellington.
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
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Wellington City Council https://wellington.govt.nz