Surname:
Binnie
Given names:
Margaruite
Given address:
Maori Hill
Notes:
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Margaret (Margaurite) Wallace Binnie was born in 1871 in Dunedin, the daughter of Alexander Binnie, a bricklayer, and Mary Wallace.
When Margaurite signed the suffrage petition she was living with her family in Maori Hill, Dunedin.
She married John Patrick Desmond, an engine driver, in 1905.
They lived at Greymouth and Te Puke, then in Auckland where Desmond died in 1953 and Margaurite died on June 5th 1954.
They were both cremated in Auckland.
Sources
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
Community contributions