M. Snow

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Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Margaret Hogg was born about 1832 in Selkirk, Scotland.

She emigrated to Australia and she married George McDonald Frier in 1857 in Victoria.

They had two children in Victoria before moving to New Zealand in the early 1860s where their next two children were born, one who died in infancy.

The family lived in Dunedin where George worked as a grocer.

In 1869 they opened the Mosgiel Hotel at East Taieri. George died at Mosgiel in 1872 'after a long and painful illness, borne with great fortitude'.

Margaret re-married the following year on 7 August at Outram to Jonathan Snow, a widower and father of Alice. (See 86 Alice McLeod)

They continued running the Mosgiel Hotel and their son was born in 1874.

Jonathan was declared insolvent in 1878 and he later worked as the poundkeeper at Outram.

Jonathan died in 1891 and Margaret then moved to Kew in Dunedin where she signed the suffrage petition.

Margaret died at her daughter’s home (See 34 Mrs W Collie) on 4 July 1914, she is buried with George Frier and their infant son in the Southern 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

Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/

BDM Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au