See also Caversham research databases
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Taylor was born about 1853 in Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland.
She married James Ross, a labourer, in Dalry in 1878 and they had two children before they emigrated to Otago in 1883 on the Nelson.
They settled in Fairfield where they had a further five children and where Margaret signed the suffrage petition.
James worked as a coal miner then later in life as a wool classer.
Margaret died at her daughter’s home in Caversham on 8 March 1932 and James died in 1935 – they are buried together in the Green Island Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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