Signed family name
Wilson
Signed given name
Margaret
Given address
King St
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Knox was born about 1852 in County Cavan, Ireland.
She emigrated to Otago with her sister Ann (See 39 Mrs Porteous) in 1875 on the James Nicol Fleming.
Margaret worked as a dressmaker before she married, grocer, James Davidson Wilson in 1877 in Dunedin.
They had three children and when Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were living in King Street.
They later moved to Christchurch where James died in 1929 and Margaret died on 3 January 1939 – they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.