Signed family name
Marks
Signed given name
Margaret
Given address
St Kilda
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Menzies was born in about 1842. She married John Marks, a carter, in New Zealand in 1870.
They had eight children, and when she signed the suffrage petition Margaret was living in Richardson St, St Kilda, Dunedin.
John died at Richardson St in 1908 and is buried in the Southern Cemetery. Margaret died on 11 August 1919 at her daughter’s residence in Sockburn, Christchurch. She is buried in the St Peters Churchyard in Upper Riccarton, Christchurch.
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
