This is either Margaret Mair or Margaret Mair Howat
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Mair was born on 23 October 1836 in Loudon, Ayrshire, Scotland – the daughter of John Mair, a carrier and innkeeper, and Catherine Paton.
She married John Howat, a carpenter, on 20 September 1860 in Loudon, Ayrshire and they had a daughter in 1862. (See 100 C P Howat)
That year John travelled to New Zealand and set up the first sawmilling business in the Catlins district. Margaret and their daughter Catherine came to join him about 1866 and they had a further five children, including Margaret Mair Howat in 1870.
The sawmill was moved to the Tapanui district and later the family took up farming.
They retired to Tapanui where Margaret snr and jnr. both signed the suffrage petition.
Margaret snr. died on 28 February 1918 and John died in 1921.
Margaret jnr. did not marry and she continued to live in Tapanui.
She died in Christchurch on 24 July 1958 and is buried with her parents in the family grave in the Tapanui Cemetery.
Sources
Clutha District Council https://www.cluthadc.govt.nz
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
Presbyterian Archives http://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives