Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Somerville Miller was born in 1869 in New Zealand – the daughter of Peter Miller, a farmer, and Agnes Winter. (See 136 A Miller)
She married James Cooper, a farmer, on 7 August 1889 in Owaka and they had three children.
When Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were living in Owaka.
The family moved to Dunedin in 1899 – Margaret died there on 8 July 1900, shortly after the birth of their third child, she is buried in the Owaka Cemetery.
James re-married in 1908 and he moved to Waikouaiti, north of Dunedin.
He died in 1946 and is buried in the Waikouaiti Cemetery with his second wife.
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/