Originally transcribed as 138 Mrs D McDonald
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret was born in 1834 in Ayrshire, Scotland.
She married Donald McDonald and shortly after their marriage they emigrated to Otago in 1863 on the City of Dunedin.
'After a brief stay at Maori Hill, they went to the Tokomairiro Plains, and after a few years’ stay on a farm then owned by the late Mr John L Gillies, they removed to Greenfield Station, in the Tuapeka district.'
They returned to Tokomairiro in the 1870s & bought land at Milburn where they raised their eight children and where Margaret signed the suffrage petition.
Donald died in 1901 and Margaret died at her home in Dunedin on 12 March 1928, they are buried together in the Fairfax Cemetery, Milton.
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