Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Mitchell was born about 1858 in Australia - she came to New Zealand when she was very young.
Margaret married James Thomas Hare, a paper ruler and widower with five children, on 9 December 1885 in Dunedin.
Margaret and James had four children and when Margaret signed the suffrage petition the family were living in York Place, Dunedin although Margaret gave her address as Elm Row, nearby.
James committed suicide in 1931 'while in a state of extreme mental depression caused by illness' and Margaret died on 10 June 1940, they are buried in the family grave in the Northern 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
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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