Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Williamina Murray was born in South Otago in 1870 – the daughter of William McGregor Murray, a farmer, and Grace Roy. (See 110 Grace Murray)
When Williamina signed the suffrage petition she was living on the family farm 'Meadowbank' at Wairuna, South Otago.
She married John Edwin Macfarlane, a railway officer, in 1898 and they lived in Balclutha.
John died in Dunedin in 1925 and Williamina lived in Dunedin until her death on 29 August 1965, they are buried together 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
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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