M. Dick

Surname:

Dick

Given names:

Given address:

North East Valley

Sheet No: 33

Town/Suburb:

North Dunedin

City/Region:

Dunedin

Notes:

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Margaret Thomson was born about 1844 in Edinburgh, Scotland – the daughter of George Thomson, a farm servant, and Helen Leadbetter.

She travelled to Otago with her family on the Jura, arriving in 1858 and they settled in Dunedin.

Margaret married Frederick Boyer, a carter, on 15 February 1866 and they had seven children.

In March 1879 Frederick died – their last child was born in May that year, she died aged nine weeks.

In December, six-year-old Margaret also died, they are all buried in the Northern Cemetery.

On 16 June 1882 Margaret married George Dick, a nurseryman in Dunedin and when she signed the suffrage petition they were living at Esk Bank Nursery in North East Valley, Dunedin.

In the late 1890s thefamily moved to Alexandra where George managed the Manorburn nursery.

Margaret died at Alexandra South on 18 October 1924 and George died in 1939, they are buried in the Alexandra Cemetery.

Margaret’s obituary said 'possessed of a kindly and gentle disposition and ever ready to render assistance to her neighbours in sickness and in the cause of humanity generally, her womanly virtues will remain a household word in the district.'