Signed family name
McMillan
Signed given name
Miss
Given address
Vire Street
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret McMillan was born on 1 June 1867 in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland – the daughter Thomas McMillan, a blacksmith, and Catherine Brown. (See 59 Mrs McMillan)
She emigrated to Otago with her parents and six siblings in 1880 on the Marlborough and they settled in Dunedin.
When Margaret signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Vire St, Dunedin working as a dressmaker.
She disappears from the records after 1896 and her place and date of death are unknown.
Sources
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz