Signed family name
Cockroft
Signed given name
Margaret
Given address
Clinton
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Taylor was born about 1858. She married Arthur Cockroft, an engine driver, in 1877 in New Zealand.
They had 10 children and the family lived for a time in Kelso, in South Otago, before moving to Clinton where Margaret signed the suffrage petition.
In 1900 Arthur was transferred to Invercargill where Margaret died on 11 May 1927.
Arthur died in 1933 - they are buried in the family grave in the Invercargill Eastern 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
Invercargill City Council https://icc.govt.nz