Also signed as 62 M Aitken
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret McEwan was born about 1868. She married John Aitken, a painter, on 9 November 1887 in South Dunedin.
They had four children and when Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were living in Reid Rd, South Dunedin.
John died at their home in 1926 and Margaret died on 7 March 1960.
She was cremated and her ashes buried with John in the family grave in the Southern 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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