Signed family name
Scott
Signed given name
Margaret
Given address
Broad Bay
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret McTainsh was born about 1860 in New Zealand – the daughter of Peter McTainsh, a farmer, and Alison Wilson.
She married John Scott, a farmer, in 1886 and they had six children.
When Margaret signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula.
She died on 14 April 1938 at her home and John died in 1941, they are buried together in the Broad Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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