Mrs McAra

Signed family name

McAra

Signed given name

Mrs

Given address

Pine Hill

Sheet number

149

Town/Suburb

North Dunedin

City/Region

Dunedin

Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Margaret Dow was born on 7 April 1839 in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland – the daughter of John Dow, an agricultural labourer, and Janet Robin.

She emigrated to Otago in 1859 on the Alpine accompanied by her sister Janet (See 143 Jessie Anderson), her brother David and his wife and three children.

Margaret married John McAra, a farmer, on 6 January 1860 in Dunedin and they had 10 children, two who appear to have died in infancy.

When Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were living in Pine Hill, Dunedin.

Margaret died at her home on 31 August 1898 and John died at their daughter’s home in 1915, they are buried in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.