Biography
MARGARET TURNER
Burial register ID: | 14597 |
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Surname: | TURNER |
First name: | MARGARET |
Middle names: | |
Gender: | Female |
Age: | 78 Years |
Cause of death: | Unknown |
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Date of death: | 26-Jan-1928 |
Date of burial: | 27-Jan-1928 |
Block: | 44 | ![]() |
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Plot: | 3 | |
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In loving memory of |
Margaret was born in 1849, probably at Bo’ness, West Lothian, Scotland. She was the first child of Allan and Mary Henderson, who emigrated with their four children to Tasmania in 1855. Three more children were born in Tasmania, and two more after the family arrived in Dunedin, probably in 1863. We know Margaret was illiterate at the age of twelve, because on the birth certificate of her sister Janet, born in 1861, she signs (as “informant”) with an X mark. Margaret married Coll Turner, a Scottish-born boilermaker, at her mother’s home in Castle Street, Dunedin, on 31 December 1869. The couple had six children: Alexander (1873), Flora McKenzie (1878), Allan (1876), James (1880), Coll (1883) and Eva (1886). None of Margaret’s children were long-lived; it is believed they were all victims of tuberculosis, with ages at death ranging from four years (Alexander) to 43 (James). Neither of the daughters married. Margaret herself reached the age of 78, dying at her home in Dudley Place, Maori Hill, Dunedin on 26 January 1928. By then she had outlived her husband, who died in 1905 at the age of 61, and all her children, the last of whom, James, died in 1923. Margaret was buried with her husband and several of her children, as well as her mother Mary Henderson, in the Turner family plot in the Northern Cemetery. Others buried here: Margaret’s husband Coll and their children Alexander, Flora McKenzie, Coll and Eva, her mother Mary Henderson, and her neice Mary Elizabeth Chalmers. |
![]() Margaret TurnerSource: Pauline & Don McLeay |
Surname | First names | Age | Date of death | Date of burial |
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CHALMERS | MARY ELIZABETH | 10 Months | 03-Mar-1880 | 05-Mar-1880 |
HENDERSON | MARY | 78 Years | 11-Dec-1906 | 13-Dec-1906 |
TURNER | ALEXANDER | 4 Years | 20-Mar-1877 | 22-Mar-1877 |
TURNER | COLL | 61 Years | 21-Jul-1905 | 23-Jul-1905 |
TURNER | COLL | 28 Years | 01-Mar-1911 | 03-Mar-1911 |
TURNER | EVA MAY | 36 Years | 14-Mar-1924 | 17-Mar-1924 |
TURNER | FLORA MCKENZIE | 24 Years | 17-Aug-1902 | 19-Aug-1902 |
TURNER | MARGARET | 78 Years | 26-Jan-1928 | 27-Jan-1928 |
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