Surname:
Barber
Given names:
Marion
Given address:
Waihao
Notes:
Biographical information provided by Stefanie Lash, Archives New Zealand, for the He Tohu exhibition:
Marion Aitchison was born in 1839 in Stirlingshire, Scotland, one of seven children. At the age of 23 she came to New Zealand with her younger sister Euphemia in 1862. In 1866 she married James Barber, a farmer from Yorkshire. They had seven children: six daughters and a son, including Agnes Ada who signed the same Sheet of the Peition. Marion and James farmed 80 acres at Waihao in south Canterbury. Marion died in 1907 at the age of 68.
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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