Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Fairbairn was born about 1835 in Scotland. She married John Williamson, a carpenter, in Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland on 9 March 1858.
Shortly after their marriage, they emigrated to Otago and settled in Dunedin.
They had eight children. When she signed the suffrage petition, Margaret was living in Elm Row.
John died in 1906 and Margaret died on 30 December 1914. They are buried together in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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