Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Catherine Johnstone was born in 1868 in Milton – the daughter of Thomas Johnstone and Margaret Gray Duff. (See 104 Margaret Johnstone)
When she signed the suffrage petition Margaret was living with her family in Milton working as a dressmaker.
She married Alfred Westerman Marshall, a butcher, on 24 February 1898 in Milton.
They had four children and lived in Alexandra – when the gold dredging boom occurred Alfred changed occupations and worked on a dredge as well as planting out an orchard.
Alfred died in Dunedin Hospital in 1939 and Margaret died in 1955, they are buried in the Alexandra 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/