Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ernestina Wilhelmina/Minnie Frankel was born in 1867 in South Australia – the daughter of August Ferdinand Frankel and Margaret Grimmond.
She married Alfred Francis Cargill, a clerk, on 21 February 1887 at her parent’s home in Eurelia in South Australia.
They had two sons in South Australia, one who died in infancy, before they moved to Dunedin in the early 1890s.
They had two more sons in Dunedin and when Minnie signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Forth Street.
Alfred died in 1906, he is buried with his mother in the Northern Cemetery.
Their son Clive died in 1915, during WWI, at the Dardanelles.
Minnie re-married in 1916 to Captain William Bertram Murison. They lived in Stewart Island and Port Pegasus where William had a frozen fish business.
Minnie was mentioned in the newspaper in 1917 for her efforts 'knitting balaclava caps for our soldiers.'
Her son Gethin died in 1922 at Stewart Island after which Minnie and William retired to Waimate.
William died in 1940 in Waimate and Minnie died on 14 July 1947 at the Company Bay rest home near Dunedin, they are buried in the Northern 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
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au
Genealogy SA https://www.genealogysa.org.au/