Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Esther Tilson was born in 1873 in New Zealand – the daughter of Henry Tilson, a farmer, and Catherine Fyfe. (See 128 Catherine Tilson)
When she signed the suffrage petition Margaret was living with her parents at their home 'Purple Hill' at Port Molyneux.
She married James Murray, a farmer, on 27 December 1899 at her parents’ home. After the ceremony 'a few friends partook of a substantial breakfast...In the evening a dance in honor of the event was held in the hall, Port Molyneux, which was nicely decorated, and comfortably filled with guests.'
They had two children and lived at Port Molyneux, celebrating their Golden Wedding in 1949.
James died at Kaka Point in 1952 and Margaret died on 15 June 1965 in Dunedin, they were both cremated.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/