Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Jane Clarke was born about 1835 in Ireland – the daughter of James Clarke, a labourer.
She married James Huston, a labourer, on 19 May 1851 in Coleraine, Derry and they had five children before they emigrated to Otago in 1875 on the Waimea.
They settled at Glenore where James worked as a shepherd – he died in 1878 and is buried in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.
Margaret re-married on 12 April 1881 to John Clymer, a widower storekeeper at Glenore.
They lived at Glenore where Margaret signed the suffrage petition – she died at her home on 21 August 1904 and John died in 1910.
They are buried in the Glenore Cemetery.
Sources
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/
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/
Irish Genealogy https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/