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Margaret France

Signed family name
France
Signed given name
Margaret
Given address
Tokomairiro
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Tokomairiro
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Margaret Ellen Hall France was born in 1871 in the Tokomairiro district – the daughter of John France, a farmer, and Margaret Erskine. (See 80 Margaret France)

When Margaret signed the suffrage petition she was living with her widowed mother at 'Brucefield', near Milton.

She did not marry and she died on 30 August 1945 at her home in Dunedin, she is buried in the family grave in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.

Sources

BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz

Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.