Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Grainger was born in 1862 in New Zealand – the daughter of Thomas Grainger, a farmer, and Margaret Murie.
She was living on the Otago Peninsula when she signed the suffrage petition and shortly after, on New Years Day 1895, she married Daniel Walker.
The wedding was held at her sister’s (See 33 Mrs Jas Duckworth) home and was followed by 'tea, with a bounteous spread...In the evening an adjournment was made to the Highcliff Hall, where a dance was given in honour of the event'.
They later moved to Roslyn in Dunedin where Margaret died on 27 October 1933 and Daniel died in 1939, they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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