Originally transcribed as Martha D Cramand
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Martha Dunlop Cramond was born in 1866 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Cramond, a blacksmith, and Mary Ann Tait.
Martha did not marry – when she signed the suffrage petition she was living in Port Molyneux.
She played the organ at the Port Molyneux church – in 1889 the congregation 'presented a purse of sovereigns' to Martha 'in recognition of her services for some time past.'
Martha later lived in Temuka and Timaru where she died on 26 January 1936, she is buried in the Timaru Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Going Abroad http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm
Timaru District Council https://www.timaru.govt.nz/