Signed family name
McKay
Signed given name
Margaret
Given address
East Gore
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Also signed as 103 M. McKay
Margaret, also known as, Margaretta Grant MacKay was born about 1862 in Scotland.
When she signed the suffrage petition she was living in East Gore working as an agent.
She married travelling salesman, Ernest Reginald Boddy on 14 April 1897 at the Coffee Palace in Dunedin.
They lived in Gore and had two sons.
Ernest died in 1913 and in later life Margaret moved to Dunedin where she died on 3 October 1944 – she is buried with Ernest in the Gore Cemetery.
Sources:
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz