Mrs Drury

Signed family name

Drury

Signed given name

Mrs

Given address

McAndrew Road

Sheet number

Town/Suburb

South Dunedin

City/Region

Dunedin

Notes

Also signed as 64 Margaret Drury

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Margaret Gregory was born in 1849 in Glamorgan, Wales – the daughter of Samuel Gregory, a puddler, and Mary Evans.

Margaret married Richard Drury, a railway engine stoker, in Glamorgan in 1868. They had no children and they emigrated to Canterbury in 1874 on the Merope.

They settled in Christchurch and Richard worked as an engine driver until 1877 when he was killed when his train struck a set of crossing gates that had been left closed.

He is buried in the Barbadoes Street Cemetery.

Margaret then opened the Hereford Boarding House in Durham St which she ran until it was burnt to the ground in 1879. Margaret was declared bankrupt later that year and she appears to have moved to Dunedin.

In 1884 she was living in Caversham, Dunedin helping to advertise 'Carrighan’s Asthma Powder' in the newspaper.

When Margaret signed the suffrage petition she was living in Macandrew Rd, South Dunedin working as a dressmaker - in 1894 she gave evidence in the court case between Allan and Cecilia Anderson. (See 63 Mrs Anderson)

Margaret is possibly the Margaret Ethel Drury who died in 1928 in Invercargill and is buried in the Invercargill Eastern Cemetery.