Originally transcribed as Mrs Mary Marr
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Arbuckle was born about 1827 in Scotland.
She married Alexander McArthur, a dyer, on 28 January 1849 in Lanarkshire and they had six sons, three who died in childhood or infancy, before Alexander also died about 1865.
Margaret remarried on 4 January 1866 to Thomas Marr. They had twin daughters and a son before they emigrated to Otago about 1870.
When Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were living at Saddle Hill near Dunedin and Thomas was working as a miner.
Thomas died in Dunedin in 1914 and Margaret died at her home at Saddle Hill on 29 March 1915 – 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
