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Mrs Sivertsen

Signed family name
Sivertsen
Signed given name
Mrs
Given address
Moray Place
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Central Dunedin
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Margaret Delia Gallagher was born about 1862 in Ireland.

She came to New Zealand in the 1870’s & she married Torvalt Frederick William Sivertsen, a bootmaker from Denmark, on February 13th 1884 in Dunedin.

They had 4 children & when Margaret signed the suffrage petition they were living in Moray Place, Dunedin.

Margaret died at her home on January 9th 1935 & Torvalt died in 1944, they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

DCC Cemetery Records

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Presbyterian Research Centre

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.