Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Hart was born about 1840 in Ireland.
She came to New Zealand in the early 1860s and she married Alexander King, a storekeeper, on 19 December 1864 in Dunedin.
They had six children, one who died in infancy, and when Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were running their store in North East Valley, Dunedin.
In 1895 their 'twelve-roomed two-storeyed wooden house, including grocery store' was 'destroyed by fire about two o’clock' in the morning.
The fire 'started in the shop, and the flames spread so quickly that only a piano and some articles of furniture were saved'.
The house was insured and the shop and home were re-built.
Alexander died at their home in May 1911 and Margaret died later that year on 26 December, they are buried in the family grave in the Andersons 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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