Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Robina Morgan was born on 4 December 1871 in Edinburgh, Scotland – the daughter of George Andrew Morgan, a cabinetmaker, and Catherine Black. (See 51 Mrs G Morgan)
She emigrated to Otago in 1875 with her parents and two sisters on the Invercargill and they settled in Dunedin.
Robina married William Tinnock Ross, a commercial traveller, on 6 April 1898 in Dunedin and they had three children.
Robina died on 5 October 1937 at her home in Mission Bay, Auckland and William died in 1946, they are buried together in the Hillsborough 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
Auckland Council https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/cemeteries
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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