Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Mowat was born on 4 April 1854 in Leith, Scotland.
She came to New Zealand where she married Robert Stuart MacDonald, a printer, in 1873.
They had five children and when Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were living in Belleknowes, Dunedin.
Margaret died at her home on 8 January 1913 and Robert died in 1928 – they are buried together in the Southern Cemetery.
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
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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