Originally transcribed as Mrs Allen
Margaret Kidd was born on 4 February 1840 in West Calder, Midlothian, Scotland – the daughter of James Kidd, a mill wright, and Ann Wardrop.
She married James Allan, a gardener, on 10 March 1865 in West Calder and they had 10 children.
Their daughter Euphemia died in 1885 and the following year the family, with the seven youngest children, emigrated to Otago on the Pleiades - their two eldest sons had apparently emigrated earlier.
James died on the voyage on Christmas Day 1886 from consumption – he was buried at sea.
Margaret and the children settled in Dunedin and when she signed the suffrage petition they were living in Cumberland Street - by this time she had lost a further three of her children.
She died on 19 December 1911 and is buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources:
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
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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